Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy

Preferred Label : Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy;

NCIt synonyms : Spongiform Encephalopathy;

NCIt related terms : Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy(TSE); Prion Disease;

NCIt definition : A transmissible, infectious disease that is caused by a protein that is able to induce abnormal folding of normal cellular proteins, leading to characteristic spongiform brain changes, which are associated with neuronal loss without an inflammatory response. Such disorders have typically long incubation periods, but are then generally rapidly progressive and are uniformly fatal.;

Alternative definition : FDA: A group of rare degenerative brain disorders associated with prions for example Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).;

Codes from synonyms : 4556;

Details

Origin ID

C128346;

UMLS CUI

C0162534;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Prion disease [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Spongiform encephalopathy (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Human prion disease [ORDO Disease]
- Human prion diseases [Bloc CIM-11]
- Prion disease [PASCAL descriptor]
- Prion disease (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Prion-associated disorders [MedDRA High Level Term]
- Spongiform encephalopathy [PASCAL descriptor]
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy [LOINC component]
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy [MedDRA LLT]
- prion disease [DO Concept]
- prion disease [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- prion disease [Disease (Nov.)]
- prion disease, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- prion diseases [MeSH concept]
- prion diseases [MeSH Descriptor]
DO Cross reference
- prion disease [DO Concept]
Has associated anatomic sites
- Central Nervous System [NCIt concept]
- Nervous System [NCIt concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Disease or Syndrome [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Human prion disease [ORDO Disease]
- Prion disease [PASCAL descriptor]
- Prion disease [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Prion disease (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Prion-associated disorders [MedDRA High Level Term]
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy [LOINC component]
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy [MedDRA LLT]
- prion disease [DO Concept]
- prion disease [Disease (Nov.)]
- prion disease, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- prion diseases [MeSH Descriptor]
- prion diseases [MeSH concept]
Validated automatic mappings to BTNT
- creutzfeldt-jakob disease [MedlinePlus Topic]
Validated automatic mappings to NTBT
- degenerative nerve diseases [MedlinePlus Topic]
concept_is_in_subset
- CDRH Health Effects - Clinical Signs and Symptoms or Conditions Terminology [NCIt concept]
- FDA Center For Devices and Radiological Health Terminology [NCIt concept]
- NICHD Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Terminology [NCIt concept]
disease_has_primary_anatomic_site
- Brain [NCIt concept]

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