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Clinical features of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with V180I mutation.
Neurology - 10 Feb 2004
Jin K, Shiga Y, Shibuya S, Chida K, Sato Y, Konno H, Doh-ura K, Kitamoto T, Itoyama Y
Abstract excerpt
The authors describe the clinical features of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) with the causative point mutation at codon 180. The symptoms never started with visual or cerebellar involvement. The patients showed slower progression of the disease compared with sporadic CJD. They never showed periodic sharp and wave complexes in EEG. MRI demonstrated remarkable high-intensity areas with swelling in the cerebral...
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