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- A man given growth hormones as a child died after developing
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an inquest heard yesterday.
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- Steven Goldie, 29, died in March last year after developing
psychiatric and balance problems, Portsmouth Coroner's Court was told.
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- He had been given human growth hormone for nine years
after a childhood disease destroyed his pituitary gland, leaving him with
growth problems.
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- Mr Goldie, of Gosport, Hampshire, was taken off the hormone
treatment in 1985 when it was first linked with conventional CJD - which
is more likely to afflict older people.
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- Portsmouth Coroner James Kenroy said it seemed likely
Mr Goldie had been treated with a batch of hormone which had been contaminated
with a pituitary gland from a human CJD sufferer.
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- Mr Goldie's parents Ron and Marion told the inquest of
the agonising decision not to tell Steven when they first suspected he
had developed CJD and then of the moment when they had to tell their son
he was dying from the rare condition.
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- Verdict: misadventure.
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