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11590272

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-10-8
pubmed:abstractText
A 34-year-old Chinese woman who had lived in the United Kingdom in the 1980s was admitted to hospital in Hong Kong because of a 7-month history of progressive neurological deterioration. Initially, she complained of heartburn and paraesthesia of the hands and feet. She then developed slowness of speech and gait, and was noted to be forgetful and irritable. In January 2001, she was brought back to Hong Kong for treatment. On admission in May she was dysarthric, ataxic, and dystonic. Magnetic resonance imaging showed high signals in both thalami suggestive of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Other investigations, including electroencephalogram and lumbar puncture, were unremarkable. A tonsil biopsy showed the presence of prions. This patient's presentation is typical of the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases that have been reported since 1996. Because of her residential history, we conclude that this is an imported case from the United Kingdom.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1024-2708
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
296-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Hong Kong.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports