However, in 1985, one patient died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a rare brain infection that causes rapid changes in brain tissue, affecting muscle coordination, thinking and memory. A variant ...

The patient in this case, who has not been named, has sporadic CJD, the most common form of the disease in humans. This is different from variant CJD, the version linked to eating beef infected by ...

Dr Paul Lawler, clinical director for South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, said there was no suggestion that the initial patient could have been suffering from sporadic CJD and that the operating ...

Twenty-four hospital patients face up to 20 years of uncertainty and fear after being warned that they may have been infected with CJD because of an appalling hospital blunder. They were operated ...

We have shown that MRI signal changes are often not identified on initial scan at referring hospitals in patients with CJD. Signal abnormality characteristically occurs in the basal ganglia and ...

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...