Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a recipient of a dura mater graft processed in the US: Cause or coincidence?

latrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has never been reported among re cipients of dura mater grafts processed in the US, We recently investigated a report of such a case in a 72-year-old man with a typical clinical prese ntation of CJD, We found no evidence of CJD in either the 34-year-old donor or in other, proximal patients undergoing craniotomies, Although the graft may have caused the illness, sporadic CJD is a more likely explanation, wi th the graft being coincidental. Copyright (C) 2000 S. Karger AG, Basel.