Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease following human growth hormone therapy: case report
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Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease following human growth hormone therapy: case report.
We report the case of a 41-year-old man with iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) acquired after the use of growth hormone (GH) obtained from a number of pituitary glands sourced from autopsy material. The incubation period of the disease (from the midpoint of treatment to the onset of clinical symptoms) was rather long (28 years). Besides the remarkable cerebellar and mental signs, the p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2002000300022