Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease or Prion Disease or Mad Cow ... - iSites
Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease or Prion Disease or Mad Cow ... - iSites
Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease or Prion Disease or Mad Cow ... - iSites
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Diagnosis:<br />
-Electroencephalography<br />
-MRI<br />
“Probable” CJD is based on the clinical symptoms.<br />
-Post-m<strong>or</strong>tem immunohistochemistry of PrP sc aggregates.<br />
-Biopsy of the tonsils and, in 30% of the cases, of skeletal muscles<br />
can confirm CDJ. Determination of protease-K resistant f<strong>or</strong>m PrP sc .