PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | myoclonus |
| Symptom | C0497327|dementia |
| Sentences | 8 |
| PubMedID- 26317045 | Overall, drugs used for dementia cause approximately 4% of drug-induced myoclonus, and cholinesterase inhibitors are the most common culprits.5 drug-induced myoclonus can be cortical or subcortical origin. |
| PubMedID- 25485669 | Creutzfeldt-jakob disease (cjd) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder typically characterized by progressive dementia associated with myoclonus, cerebellar and other focal neurological signs. |
| PubMedID- 23365167 | In view of rapidly progressive dementia associated with myoclonus, a possibility of cjd was entertained. |
| PubMedID- 21616973 | The predominant clinical syndrome is a progressive cortical dementia with pyramidal signs, myoclonus and cerebellar abnormalities that closely resemble sporadic creutzfeldt-jakob disease. |
| PubMedID- 24141515 | Clinically a prionopathy should be suspected in any case of a fast progressing dementia with ataxia, myoclonus, or in individuals with pathological insomnia associated with dysautonomia. |
| PubMedID- 23180183 | The classical presentation of sporadic creutzfeldt-jakob disease (scjd) is rapid progressive dementia often associated with myoclonus and ataxia followed by death in less than a year from diagnosis. |
| PubMedID- 26077183 | Conclusion: from our case, we would like to emphasize that paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis should be considered among the differential diagnosis of rapidly progressive dementia associated with myoclonus, along with other neurodegenerative diseases. |
| PubMedID- 21369420 | nevertheless, a subacute dementia with myoclonus and periodic sharp waves on eeg, mimicking creutzfeldt–jacob disease may occur with chronic lithium toxicity. |
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