Open AccessProbable Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Presenting Dementia and Urinary Retention
Author(s) -
Aiba Yosuke,
Sakakibara Ryuji,
Iimura Ayako,
Inoue Chiaki,
Terayama Keiichiro,
Suzuki Keiko,
Katsuragawa Shuichi,
Tateno Fuyuki,
Ogata Tsuyoshi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
case reports in neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.207
H-Index - 15
ISSN - 1662-680X
DOI - 10.1159/000508265
Subject(s) - single case – general neurology
We describe the case of an 80-year-old woman with probable Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) presenting dementia and urinary retention. Although the number of patients previously examined, including ours, is small for conclusion, provided that other etiologies of urinary retention are carefully excluded, urinary retention seems to become a feature in CJD, presumably reflecting spinal cord pathology in CJD. Physicians are advised to evaluate pelvic floor function in CJD particularly by checking post-void residuals.