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Chilean scientists perform diagnosis of the "evil mad cow" 100 cases detected
Experts analyzed more than two hundred people at the Hospital Salvador, managing to detect Creutzfeldt-Jakob 100 of them.
by The Third - 28/05/2012 - 17:55
In a recent crawl over two hundred people at the Hospital Area for free, Chilean scientists be certainly able to diagnose Creutzfeldt-Jakob or "mad cow evil" at least half of them, a condition generating a severe and progressive neurological damage over time and affects apersonas average of 66 years.
Doctors Claudio Hetz, Institute of Biomedical Neuroscience, and Louis Cartier, Faculty of Medicine of the U. Chile, a biomarker used to detect the presence of a protein, which increases its expression to this pathology.
Says Dr. Hetz, diagnosis of Creutzfedt-Jakob disease has not been a simple task among physicians, requiring various examinations and clinical observations. For this reason, the recent screening allowed to deliver "an accurate diagnosis for both affected individuals and their families, and those who do not have the disease," which sometimes is confused with other diseases.
These developments constitute a fundamental contribution in terms of detection, since in the country, the numbers of this disease are three times higher than in the rest of the world. So far, "do not know why Chile has a high incidence. We think it may be because there are more familiar forms in the country or may be some environmental factor, but we do not clear. It is said that Libyan Jews would have an impact like ours, "explains Dr. Cartier's Third.
In addition, the scientist says that one of the objectives is to establish a permanent fixed laboratory for diagnosis. "Now is diagnosed by what we see in the clinic when patients go to the consultation, magnetic resonance and electroencephalogram. But we also want to look for the 14-3-3 protein to help diagnose because it is difficult in the early stages," Cartier said. This test is performed with a sample of spinal fluid and brain is ambulatory.
SYMPTOMS
It begins with abrupt personality changes, dementia, memory loss and failure of voluntary movements. As time progresses, mental deterioration becomes pronounced and can trigger blindness, limb weakness and coma leading to death.
Each year, are found between 50 or 60 cases a year in Chile. And according to Health Ministry statistics, due to this disease each year die about 40 Chileans.
Spanish-English translation
Chilean scientists perform diagnosis of the "evil mad cow" 100 cases detected
Experts analyzed more than two hundred people at the Hospital Salvador, managing to detect Creutzfeldt-Jakob 100 of them.
by The Third - 28/05/2012 - 17:55
In a recent crawl over two hundred people at the Hospital Area for free, Chilean scientists be certainly able to diagnose Creutzfeldt-Jakob or "mad cow evil" at least half of them, a condition generating a severe and progressive neurological damage over time and affects apersonas average of 66 years.
Doctors Claudio Hetz, Institute of Biomedical Neuroscience, and Louis Cartier, Faculty of Medicine of the U. Chile, a biomarker used to detect the presence of a protein, which increases its expression to this pathology.
Says Dr. Hetz, diagnosis of Creutzfedt-Jakob disease has not been a simple task among physicians, requiring various examinations and clinical observations. For this reason, the recent screening allowed to deliver "an accurate diagnosis for both affected individuals and their families, and those who do not have the disease," which sometimes is confused with other diseases.
These developments constitute a fundamental contribution in terms of detection, since in the country, the numbers of this disease are three times higher than in the rest of the world. So far, "do not know why Chile has a high incidence. We think it may be because there are more familiar forms in the country or may be some environmental factor, but we do not clear. It is said that Libyan Jews would have an impact like ours, "explains Dr. Cartier's Third.
In addition, the scientist says that one of the objectives is to establish a permanent fixed laboratory for diagnosis. "Now is diagnosed by what we see in the clinic when patients go to the consultation, magnetic resonance and electroencephalogram. But we also want to look for the 14-3-3 protein to help diagnose because it is difficult in the early stages," Cartier said. This test is performed with a sample of spinal fluid and brain is ambulatory.
SYMPTOMS
It begins with abrupt personality changes, dementia, memory loss and failure of voluntary movements. As time progresses, mental deterioration becomes pronounced and can trigger blindness, limb weakness and coma leading to death.
Each year, are found between 50 or 60 cases a year in Chile. And according to Health Ministry statistics, due to this disease each year die about 40 Chileans.