Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and its neurosurgical implications

Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) disease has been reported after the insertion of dural homografts. Two Australian cases of CJD, both following posterior fossa craniotomies done in 1982, are reported; the incubation periods were 5 and 12 years. It seems highly probable that the association is causal. CJD inf...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of clinical neuroscience 1996-04, Vol.3 (2), p.118-123
Hauptverfasser: Simpson, D.A, Masters, C.L, Ohlrich, G, Purdie, G, Stuart, G, Tannenberg, A.E.G
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Zusammenfassung:Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) disease has been reported after the insertion of dural homografts. Two Australian cases of CJD, both following posterior fossa craniotomies done in 1982, are reported; the incubation periods were 5 and 12 years. It seems highly probable that the association is causal. CJD infective agents (prions) are resistant to many previously accepted means of sterilisation and it is postulated that cadaver dural material was either derived from subjects with CID, or was contaminated during preparation. In Australia the use of dural homografts in neurosurgery was abandoned in 1987; as the mean incubation period (determined from a world-wide review) has been about 65 months, it is now hoped that this cause of CJD will not recur in the Australian population, although it is premature to state this with confidence. However, precautions against case-to-case transmission remain necessary, and guidelines for this purpose should be enforced in theatre practice and in organ donations.
ISSN:0967-5868
1532-2653
DOI:10.1016/S0967-5868(96)90003-X