Misdiagnosis of Prion diseases
| About misdiagnosis: When checking for a misdiagnosis of Prion diseases or confirming a diagnosis of Prion diseases, it is useful to consider what other medical conditions might be possible misdiagnoses or other alternative conditions relevant to diagnosis. These alternate diagnoses of Prion diseases may already have been considered by your doctor or may need to be considered as possible alternative diagnoses or candidates for misdiagnosis of Prion diseases. For a general overview of misdiagnosis issues for all diseases, see Overview of Misdiagnosis. |
Discussion of diagnosis/misdiagnosis of Prion diseases: Usually, this is done only to rule out other, potentially treatable, diseases, like encephalitis or meningitis that might mimic the symptoms of a TSE disease. 1
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1. excerpt from NINDS Kuru Information Page: NINDS
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