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 clinica...

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Main Authors: Luís Otávio Sales Ferreira Caboclo, Nancy Huang, Guilherme Alves Lepski, José Antônio Livramento, Carlos Alberto Buchpiguel, Cláudia Sellitto Porto, Ricardo Nitrini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2002-06-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2002000300022&tlng=en
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