NR ACYK
AU Croxson,M.; Brown,P.; Synek,B.; Harrington,M.G.; Frith,R.; Clover,G.; Wilson,J.; Gajdusek,D.C.
TI A new case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with human growth hormone therapy in New Zealand
QU Neurology 1988 Jul; 38(7): 1128-30
PT journal article
AB A clinically atypical, neuropathologically verified case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is described in a 32-year-old New Zealand woman with idiopathic hypopituitarism who had been treated in late adolescence (1970 to 1973) with human growth hormone processed from pooled cadaveric pituitary glands.
MH Adult; Amyloid/isolation & purification; Brain/*pathology; Brain Chemistry; Case Report; Cerebellum/pathology; Cerebral Cortex/pathology; Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteins/analysis; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/*etiology/pathology; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; Female; Growth Hormone/*adverse effects/therapeutic use; Human; Hypopituitarism/*drug therapy; Nerve Tissue Proteins/analysis
AD Auckland Hospital, New Zealand.
SP englisch
PO USA