title: Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease: An 8-Year Experience from a Single Center in Turkey.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Our aim was to conduct a retrospective review to demonstrate the clinical, radiological, and electrophysiological features of patients with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (sCJD).
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 10 patients (5 female and 5 male, with a mean age of 45 years from a range of 40 to 67 years) out of 8.259 adult patients hospitalized from January 2000 to December 2008 were diagnosed with sCJD.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eight of the patients were diagnosed on the basis of clinical, radiological, electroencephalography (EEG), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) findings. Two other patients also had a pathological diagnosis. The most common signs and symptoms were behavioral disturbances, movement disorders, cognitive decline, myoclonus, psychosis, focal neurological deficit, and aphasia. Nine of the patients had periodic sharp wave discharges on EEG. Seven patients were positive for the 14.3.3 protein in the CSF. Five patients had pulvinar signs-a bilateral increased signal in the pulvinar thalami-on cranial magnetic resonance imaging. Eight patients were diagnosed with probable sCJD; two were diagnosed with definite sCJD. All of the patients died as a result of the disease within 24 months after the onset of symptoms.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  sCJD should be considered in the diagnosis of patients who present with rapidly progressive dementia. Clinical and radiological data appear to be sufficient for the diagnosis. However, detailed molecular examinations of the subtypes of the disease may be required for early diagnosis of cases given the wide spectra of CJD.
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Özlem
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Taşkapilioğlu
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Meral
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seferoğlu
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Şükran
authors.initials: Ş
authors.lastname: Yurtoğullari
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Bahattin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hakyemez
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sevda
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Erer
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Necdet
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Karli
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bakar
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ö Faruk
authors.initials: ÖF
authors.lastname: Turan
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zarifoğlu
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Şahsine
authors.initials: Ş
authors.lastname: Tolunay
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: İbrahim
authors.initials: İ
authors.lastname: Bora
keywords: Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; cerebrospinal fluid; magnetic resonance imaging; periodic sharp wave complexes