NR ADLT
AU Dobbins,J.G.; Belay,E.D.; Malecki,J.; Buck,B.E.; Bell,M.; Cobb,J.; Schonberger,L.B.
TI Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a recipient of a dura mater graft processed in the US: cause or coincidence?
QU Neuroepidemiology 2000 Mar-Apr; 19(2): 62-6
PT journal article
AB Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has never been reported among recipients of dura mater grafts processed in the US. We recently investigated a report of such a case in a 72-year-old man with a typical clinical presentation of CJD. We found no evidence of CJD in either the 34-year-old donor or in other, proximal patients undergoing craniotomies. Although the graft may have caused the illness, sporadic CJD is a more likely explanation, with the graft being coincidental.
MH Adult; Aged; Case Report; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/epidemiology/*transmission; Dura Mater/*transplantation; Human; Iatrogenic Disease; Male; United States/epidemiology
AD Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
SP englisch
PO Schweiz