Anaesthetic management in patients suspected of, or at risk of, having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
| Autor: | J A Tortosa, J. M. García-Cayuela, Joaquín Hernández-Palazón, J F Martínez-Lage |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Infectious Disease Transmission Patient-to-Professional Adolescent Dura mater Disease Anesthesia General Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome Neurosurgical Procedures Growth hormone deficiency Central nervous system disease mental disorders medicine Humans Medulloblastoma Third ventricle business.industry Sterilization medicine.disease nervous system diseases Surgery Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Growth Hormone Dura Mater Teratoma Drug Contamination business |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Anaesthesia. 80:516-518 |
| ISSN: | 0007-0912 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bja/80.4.516 |
| Popis: | We report two young patients who had repeated neurosurgical procedures and who were thought to be at risk of developing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The first patient had been given a lyophilized dural graft in the course of removal of a cerebellar medulloblastoma 15 yr previously. The second patient had received pituitary-derived growth hormone for treatment of growth hormone deficiency, secondary to a third ventricle teratoma, exised 13 yr earlier. The presence of cerebellar symptoms together with being recipients of growth hormone or dural graft of cadaveric extraction arose suspicion of a diagnosis of CJD in both individuals. Precautions in the anaesthetic and surgical management of these two patients are discussed, and pertinent literature is reviewed briefly. |
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