| Literature DB >> 20386644 |
Min Jeong Park1, Hee Young Jo, Sang-Myung Cheon, Sun Seob Choi, Yong-Sun Kim, Jae Woo Kim.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS) is a type of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) that is determined genetically. CASE REPORT: A 46-year-old woman presented with a slowly progressive ataxic gait and cognitive decline. She was alert but did not cooperate well due to severe dementia and dysarthria. High signal intensities in the cerebral cortices were evident in MRI, especially in diffusion-weighted images (DWI). A prion protein gene (PRNP) analysis revealed a P102L (proline-to-leucine) mutation in codon 102.Entities:
Keywords: Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease; diffusion-weighted imaging; transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
Year: 2010 PMID: 20386644 PMCID: PMC2851297 DOI: 10.3988/jcn.2010.6.1.46
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Neurol ISSN: 1738-6586 Impact factor: 3.077