Abstract
A 44 year old female presented with a progressive cerebellar disturbance approximately 13 years after receiving human pituitary derived gonadotrophin injections as a treatment for infertility. The patient died approximately nine months later. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was confirmed at necropsy. This is the second reported case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a recipient of human derived gonadotrophin.
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