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Article: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; office-based surgery accreditation; new cancer probe; patients' jewelry.
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- AORN Journal
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Question: I have been hearing a lot about CJD and its potential for spreading via surgical instruments. What is CJD, and how can it be spread by instruments that have been cleaned and sterilized?
Answer: The acronym CJD stands for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, an infectious, degenerative, and fatal disease of the central nervous system.(1) Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is one of a group of encephalopathies known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). Other human forms of TSEs are kuru, Gerstmann-Straussler-Sheinker syndrome, and familial insomnia syndrome. Recently, a fourth type of human TSE called variant CJD (vCJD) has been recognized.(2) Animal forms ...