[Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The first case with histopathological study in Panama]

We studied the clinical and histopathology findings of the first proved case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Panama. A sixty-five-years-old female patient referred from Santiago de Veraguas was admitted to Santo Tomás Hospital with a progressive clinical picture of dementia, incoordination and generalized myoclonia. The electroencephalogram showed periodic paroxysmal activity. The patient died eight months after initiated the disease. The cerebral histopathologic study was characteristic of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: status spongiform, neuronal loss and non-inflammatory gliosis was found.