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SUBMITTER: Li JSY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6301874 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Jun Si Yuan JSY Lim Kheng Choon KC Lim Winston Eng Hoe WEH Chen Robert Chun RC
Singapore medical journal 20181201 12
A 68-year-old man presented with a three-week history of rapidly progressive dementia, gait ataxia and myoclonus. Subsequent electroencephalography showed periodic sharp wave complexes, and cerebrospinal fluid assay revealed the presence of a 14-3-3 protein. A probable diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was made, which was further supported by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the brain showing asymmetric signal abnormality in the cerebral cortices and basal ganglia. The aetiology, ...[more]