Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease With COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2023

Publication Title

Cureus

Abstract

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare and rapidly fatal neurological disease. Diagnosis is made through clinical features, imaging, electroencephalography, and cerebrospinal fluid analysis. Sporadic CJD accounts for the majority of cases and occurs due to somatic mutation in the gene or random structural change in the prion protein. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is known to cause neurodegeneration, and CJD acceleration is hypothesized due to systemic inflammatory response and prion misfolding. We present a 70-year-old lady with rapidly progressing dementia diagnosed as CJD, with the onset coinciding with COVID-19 infection.

PubMed ID

37872927

Volume

15

Issue

9

First Page

45757

Last Page

45757

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