Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a recipient of a dura mater graft processed in the US: cause or coincidence?

Abstract:

: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.

journal_name

Neuroepidemiology

journal_title

Neuroepidemiology

authors

Dobbins JG,Belay ED,Malecki J,Buck BE,Bell M,Cobb J,Schonberger LB

doi

10.1159/000026240

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-03-01 00:00:00

pages

62-6

issue

2

eissn

0251-5350

issn

1423-0208

pii

26240

journal_volume

19

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