Ophthalmic Surgery in Prion Diseases

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Hamaguchi, Tsuyoshi ; Noguchi-Shinohara, Moeko ; Nakamura, Yosikazu ; Sato, Takeshi ; Kitamoto, Tetsuyuki ; Mizusawa, Hidehiro ; Yamada, Masahito
• Description:
  Eleven (1.8%) of 597 patients underwent ophthalmic surgery within 1 month before the onset of prion disease or after the onset. All ophthalmologists reused surgical instruments that had been incompletely sterilized to eliminate infectious prion protein. Ophthalmologists should be aware of prion diseases as a possible cause of visual symptoms and use disposable instruments whenever possible.
• Subjects:
  Aged Aged, 80 And Over Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome Eye Diseases Female Humans Male Middle Aged Sterilization
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 13(1):162-164.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Japan
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  13
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:75fc4c1dcc724da6c83bbc2fb53e6e075f5ed30c0b8ec2ce8e516276e53d3bfe
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16498/cdc_16498_DS1.pdf
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