"Pediatric" forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD)
Nigro, N.; Nigro, G.
Minerva Pediatrica 49(11): 529-531
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4946 PMID: 9549296 Document Number: 480024
The authors propose the name of pediatric CJD disease (nvCJD) for those forms of this pathology which appear in childhood and adolescence (about twenty cases have been reported in Europe: 1996). The "pediatric form" differs both in terms of age ("teenagers" and also 16-year-old), but also owing to its long course (mean of 14 to 35 months) and the early onset of psychiatric and sensory symptoms. Until a few years ago, discussion of a new pediatric-adolescent form of the disease (new variant of CJD) would have been laughable.