Wilson's disease

Progressive hepatolenticular disease, or more commonly known as Wilson’s Disease, is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder of copper metabolism that is characterized by hepatic and neurological disease. While there is no cure for Wilson’s Disease, there are several treatments that can effectively manage the symptoms. The predominant form of treatment for Wilson’s Disease is heavy metal toxicity medication which utilize copper chelators to prompt the organs in the body to release copper into

What is Wilson‘s diseases? Wilson’s disease also known as a term called hepatolenticular is basically a genetic disorder and causes copper to start accumulate in the liver, brain and other vital organs. This accumulation then causes various troubles and problems related to the organs. Copper is an essential metal for our body and it plays a key role in the development of healthy nerves

this before so we went to many different doctors in an attempt to figure out what I had. Finally, after many doctors and many tests, they told my parents that I had Wilson’s disease. Being that I was only eight years old at the time, I didn’t know what this meant but my mom suddenly remembered that there was an instance of this disease in the family, with her grandmother struggling from it her whole life. Through the years, I have learned a lot about the condition that I am dealing with. Now, at 34

Wilson’s disease is a rare genetic disorder affecting about 1 in 30,000 people (Schilsky, 2014) in which excess copper accumulates in the body, notably the liver and the brain (Anon, undated). It is an autosomal recessive condition in which the ATP7B gene on chromosome 13 (EASL, 2012) is defective. There are around 500 known mutations that can cause this defectivity (Tidy, 2014). The ATP7B gene codes for a copper-transporting P-type ATPase usually found in hepatocytes (Huster, 2010) (Roberts & Schilsky

Wilson’s disease is a well-known leading cause of chronic liver disease in children. However it may remain undiagnosed in a resource limited setting for a long period. We describe a six year male child diagnosed Wilson’s disease with extreme elevation of liver enzymes which is not reported earlier. The diagnosis was also baffling because of inconsistency of other laboratory parameters. Introduction Wilson disease is one of the common metabolic liver disorders prevailing worldwide. The diagnosis

neurologist who first described a pathological change of the brain and liver in 1912. Wilson's work was based off of different reports and studies from many studies including a German neurologist by the name of Dr Carl Westphal in 1883, who termed these changes "pseudosclerosis", by a British neurologist named Sir William Gowers in 1888, who similarly identified the combination of neurologic and liver disease (Rosencrantz and Schilsky, 2011, pg. 246) and by Dr Adolph Strümpell in 1898, who noted

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