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Characterization of sleep disorders in patients with E200K familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Journal of neurology - 1 Feb 2015
Cohen Oren S, Chapman Joab, Korczyn Amos D, Warman-Alaluf Naama, Orlev Yael, Givaty Gili, Nitsan Zeev, Appel Shmuel, Rosenmann Hanna, Kahana Esther, Shechter-Amir Dalia
Abstract excerpt
The largest cluster of E200K familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (fCJD) which occurs is in Jews of Libyan origin in Israel. Insomnia is a very common early complaint in those patients and may even be the presenting symptom. The aim of this study was to assess and characterize sleep pathology in E200K fCJD patients. To do so, sleep studies of 10 consecutive fCJD patients were compared with those of 39 age and...
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