Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a man surviving COVID-19: disentangling a casual or causal association by neuropathology.

Alessia Perna Elisa Colaizzo Anna Ladogana Gabriella Silvestri Simone Baiardi

Published in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2024)

To disentangle the link between COVID-19 infection and CJD, neuropathology is essential determining the extent of changes related to both conditions. In our patient, we did not find any specific abnormality related to COVID-19. Our conclusion is in line with the current worldwide epidemiological data that do not show an increase in CJD cases since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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