Analysis of Chinese patients with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is a rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder. The objective of this study was to describe the clinical features and survival time of Chinese sCJD patients, and to explore the associations between clinical data and survival. In this study, we analysed the clinical data of 21 sCJD patients in a tertiary care hospital and used all Chinese case material available from 152 patients with sCJD in literatures between 2008 and 2018. The mean age of onset of all 173 deceased patients was 61.44 year-olds (y), with the highest incidence in the population of 60 to 69 y. The most common manifestation at disease onset was progressive dementia. With the progression of the disease, the four main clinical symptoms and signs were developed, including myoclonus, visual or cerebella disturbance, pyramidal or extrapyramidal dysfunction, and akinetic mutism. Extrapyramidal symptoms were more frequently observed. The mean survival time was 7.34 months, and 82.10% of cases died within 1 year after disease onset. The follow-up showed that the survival time was longer and the myoclonus sign was more frequently presented in younger-onset sCJD patients. Patients with abnormalities only in cortical regions had a higher frequency of pyramidal dysfunction than patients having lesions in both cortex and basal ganglia. The findings of this study might provide some insight into the clinical characteristics of sCJD patients in China, but further studies could examine the presences of clinical features and survival time in patients with early age of onset in a prospective manner.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Prion - 14(2020), 1 vom: 18. Dez., Seite 137-142

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yang, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Kuang, Haiyan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Qiong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jiao [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xueping [VerfasserIn]
Shang, Huifang [VerfasserIn]

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A tertiary care hospital
Clinical manifestation
Journal Article
Literature review
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Survival

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Date Completed 30.09.2021

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/19336896.2020.1761515

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM309618045