• J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. · Nov 2020

    MM2-type sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: new diagnostic criteria for MM2-cortical type.

    • Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi, Nobuo Sanjo, Ryusuke Ae, Yosikazu Nakamura, Kenji Sakai, Masaki Takao, Shigeo Murayama, Yasushi Iwasaki, Katsuya Satoh, Hiroyuki Murai, Masafumi Harada, Tadashi Tsukamoto, Hidehiro Mizusawa, and Masahito Yamada.
    • Department of Neurology and Neurobiology of Aging, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan.
    • J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 2020 Nov 1; 91 (11): 1158-1165.

    ObjectiveTo clinically diagnose MM2-cortical (MM2C) and MM2-thalamic (MM2T)-type sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) at early stage with high sensitivity and specificity.MethodsWe reviewed the results of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Surveillance Study in Japan between April 1999 and September 2019, which included 254 patients with pathologically confirmed prion diseases, including 9 with MM2C-type sCJD (MM2C-sCJD) and 10 with MM2T-type sCJD (MM2T-sCJD), and 607 with non-prion diseases.ResultsAccording to the conventional criteria of sCJD, 4 of 9 patients with MM2C- and 7 of 10 patients with MM2T-sCJD could not be diagnosed with probable sCJD until their death. Compared with other types of sCJD, patients with MM2C-sCJD showed slower progression of the disease and cortical distribution of hyperintensity lesions on diffusion-weighted images of brain MRI. Patients with MM2T-sCJD also showed relatively slow progression and negative results for most of currently established investigations for diagnosis of sCJD. To clinically diagnose MM2C-sCJD, we propose the new criteria; diagnostic sensitivity and specificity to distinguish 'probable' MM2C-sCJD from other subtypes of sCJD, genetic or acquired prion diseases and non-prion disease controls were 77.8% and 98.5%, respectively. As for MM2T-sCJD, clinical and laboratory features are not characterised enough to develop its diagnostic criteria.ConclusionsMM2C-sCJD can be diagnosed at earlier stage using the new criteria with high sensitivity and specificity, although it is still difficult to diagnose MM2T-sCJD clinically.© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

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