Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a patient with a cadaveric dural graft.
We report a 26-year-old woman with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) who had received cadaveric dural material 33 months before the onset of neurologic symptoms. This is the fourth case in which a dural graft was the putative source of the CJD agent. All four cases had the grafting before changes in the sterilization procedure adopted in 1987 to inactivate the CJD agent.
Miyashita
K
K
Department of Neurology, Niigata University, Japan.
Inuzuka
T
T
Kondo
H
H
Saito
Y
Y
Fujita
N
N
Matsubara
N
N
Tanaka
R
R
Hinokuma
K
K
Ikuta
F
F
Miyatake
T
T
D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D002102:Cadaver; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000635:transmission; D004388:Dura Mater / Q000637:transplantation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed