How Heterogeneous Can the Clinical Presentation for Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease Be?
Case | Age, years | Gender | Illness Duration, months | Major Characteristics | Magnetic Resonance Imaging | 14–3–3 Protein |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
#1 | 62 | M | 7 | Visual impairment; delirium; cerebellar syndrome; axial and appendicular ataxia | Increase of ventricular volume | + |
#2 | 62 | F | 4 | Behavioral disturbance; hallucinations; extrapyramidal syndrome | Bilateral hypersignal in parietal and occipital cortex | Not performed |
#3 | 65 | M | 8 | Seizures; trismus; behavioral changes; pyramidal signs; myoclonus | Hypersignal in T2 and Flair; diffuse atrophy; basal ganglia affected | — |
#4 | 52 | M | 6 | Motor impairment; myoclonus; dysphagia; pyramidal signs | Hypersignal in T2 and Flair; diffuse atrophy; basal ganglia affected; frontal and parietal damage | + |
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