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- Title
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in Pituitary Growth Hormone Recipients in the United States.
- Authors
Fradkin, Judith E.; Schonberger, Lawrence B.; Mills, James L.; Gunn, Walter J.; Piper, Joyce M.; Wysowski, Diane K.; Thomson, Ruth; Durako, Stephen; Brown, Paul
- Abstract
Assesses the magnitude of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) occurrence among recipients of pituitary-derived human growth hormone (GH). Analysis of pituitary batches and hormone lots; Distribution of cases by sex and therapeutic indication; Comparison of the duration of GH treatment in CJD cases and nonaffected recipients in the same cohort years.
- Subjects
CREUTZFELDT-Jakob disease; PRESENILE dementia; CENTRAL nervous system diseases; SOMATOTROPIN; HUMAN growth
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1991, Vol 265, Issue 7, p880
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.1991.03460070062043