Creutzfeldt-Jacob’s Disease Presenting with Psychiatric Symptomsand Severe Itching
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by the accumulation of abnormal prion-like proteins in the central nervous system. Clinical features, electroencephalography, brain magnetic resonance imaging and protein 14.3.3 is useful in diagnosis. Prot...
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| author | Emine Rabia Koç Burcu Acar Zübeyde Aytürk Tuğba Cengiz Ülkühan Düzgün Atilla İlhan |
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| description | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by the accumulation of abnormal prion-like proteins in the central nervous system. Clinical features, electroencephalography, brain magnetic resonance imaging and protein 14.3.3 is useful in diagnosis. Protein 14.3.3 may be negative in the early or late stages of the disease. Presentation with psychiatric symptoms and itching is not typical in the beginning of the disease
In this paper, we present a patient who was first accepted to the pschiatry ward because of his psychiatric symtpoms and had severe itching, resistant to antihistaminic drugs |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0b83585dd392460197e1f36c73ec4b4c2023-02-15T16:17:01ZengGalenos YayineviTürk Nöroloji Dergisi1301-062X1309-25452013-03-01191252710.4274/Tnd.79106Creutzfeldt-Jacob’s Disease Presenting with Psychiatric Symptomsand Severe ItchingEmine Rabia Koç0Burcu Acar1Zübeyde Aytürk2Tuğba Cengiz3Ülkühan Düzgün4Atilla İlhan5Department Of Neurology, Fatih University, Ankara, TurkeyDepartment Of Neurology, Fatih University, Ankara, TurkeyDepartment Of Neurology, Fatih University, Ankara, TurkeyDepartment Of Neurology, Fatih University, Ankara, TurkeyDepartment Of Neurology, Fatih University, Ankara, TurkeyDepartment Of Neurology, Fatih University, Ankara, TurkeyCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by the accumulation of abnormal prion-like proteins in the central nervous system. Clinical features, electroencephalography, brain magnetic resonance imaging and protein 14.3.3 is useful in diagnosis. Protein 14.3.3 may be negative in the early or late stages of the disease. Presentation with psychiatric symptoms and itching is not typical in the beginning of the disease In this paper, we present a patient who was first accepted to the pschiatry ward because of his psychiatric symtpoms and had severe itching, resistant to antihistaminic drugshttp://www.tjn.org.tr/jvi.aspx?pdir=tjn&plng=eng&un=TJN-79106Creutzfeldt-Jacob’sDisease (CJD)prurituspsychiatricsymptoms |
| spellingShingle | Emine Rabia Koç Burcu Acar Zübeyde Aytürk Tuğba Cengiz Ülkühan Düzgün Atilla İlhan Creutzfeldt-Jacob’s Disease Presenting with Psychiatric Symptomsand Severe Itching Türk Nöroloji Dergisi Creutzfeldt-Jacob’sDisease (CJD) pruritus psychiatricsymptoms |
| title | Creutzfeldt-Jacob’s Disease Presenting with Psychiatric Symptomsand Severe Itching |
| title_full | Creutzfeldt-Jacob’s Disease Presenting with Psychiatric Symptomsand Severe Itching |
| title_fullStr | Creutzfeldt-Jacob’s Disease Presenting with Psychiatric Symptomsand Severe Itching |
| title_full_unstemmed | Creutzfeldt-Jacob’s Disease Presenting with Psychiatric Symptomsand Severe Itching |
| title_short | Creutzfeldt-Jacob’s Disease Presenting with Psychiatric Symptomsand Severe Itching |
| title_sort | creutzfeldt jacob s disease presenting with psychiatric symptomsand severe itching |
| topic | Creutzfeldt-Jacob’sDisease (CJD) pruritus psychiatricsymptoms |
| url | http://www.tjn.org.tr/jvi.aspx?pdir=tjn&plng=eng&un=TJN-79106 |
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