Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease

Introduction: Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease

Description of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease

Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease (medical condition): Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a rare 1-in-a-million disease that occurs spontaneously, with 10-15% ...more

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease:
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Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease: A rare transmissible encephalopathy most prevalent between the ages of 50 and 70 years. Affected individuals may present with sleep disturbances, personality changes, ATAXIA; APHASIA, visual loss, weakness, muscle atrophy, MYOCLONUS, progressive dementia, and death within one year of disease onset. A familial form exhibiting autosomal dominant inheritance and a new variant CJD (potentially associated with ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM) have been described. Pathological features include prominent cerebellar and cerebral cortical spongiform degeneration and the presence of PRIONS. (From N Engl J Med, 1998 Dec 31;339(27))
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Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease: Related Topics

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Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease as a Disease

Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease: Another name for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (or close medical condition association).
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Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease: Related Diseases

Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease: Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Prion diseases
• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy
• Brain conditions
• Degenerative conditions
• Conditions involving a pathogen
• Nervous system conditions
• Food-related conditions

Symptoms of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)

Some of the symptoms of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease incude:

• Dementia - rapidly progressive
• Memory failure
• Muscular coordination problems
• Personality changes
• Impaired judgment

See full list of 37 symptoms of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)

Treatments for Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)

Treatments for Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) include:

• Opiate drugs - pain relief
• Clonazepam - for myoclonus
• Sodium valproate - for myoclonus

Read more about treatments for Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease

Treatment of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease: For more treatment information about Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, see treatment of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease)

Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease: Article Excerpts about Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

NINDS Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Information Page: NINDS (Excerpt)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, degenerative, invariably fatal brain disorder. Typically, onset of symptoms occurs at ... (Source: excerpt from NINDS Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Information Page: NINDS)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Fact Sheet: NINDS (Excerpt)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, degenerative, invariably fatal brain disorder. It affects about one person in... (Source: excerpt from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Fact Sheet: NINDS)

Facts About Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: CDC-OC (Excerpt)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a progressive neurological disorder which belongs to a group... (Source: excerpt from Facts About Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: CDC-OC)

Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease:

• spongioform encephalopathy
• fatal familial insomnia
• chronic wasting disease
• Alper's syndrome
• Gerstmann- Straussler Scheinker syndrome

Terms associated with Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease:

Terms Similar to Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease:

• CJD
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Source: Diseases Database

Hierarchical classifications of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease

The following list attempts to classify Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease into categories where each line is subset of the next.

Disease Ontology - OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies)

• Unspecified slow virus infection of central nervous system
• POLIOMYELITIS AND OTHER NON-ARTHROPOD-BORNE VIRAL DISEASES OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
• Unspecified infectious and parasitic diseases
• DISEASES AND INJURIES
• Disease Ontology V2.1 2005

External links related to: Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease

• New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: the epidemic that never was -- Venters 323 (7317): 858 -- BMJ
• Prion disease - Genetics Home Reference
• US FDA/CFSAN Bad Bug Book - Prions and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
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• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Information Page: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (www.whonamedit.com)
• GeneReviews: Prion Diseases
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
• eMedicine - Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy : Article by Chitharanjan Rao, MD, MRCP, DM, DNB
• OMIM - CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE; CJD

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