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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)

Anesthesia Implications

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Pathophysiology

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rapidly progressive, invariably fatal neurodegenerative condition caused by prions — misfolded proteins, not organisms. Normal cellular prion protein converts to...

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