Dominant psychiatric manifestations in
Wilson's disease: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge!
The sunflower cataract in
Wilson's disease: pathognomonic sign or rare finding?
Wilson's disease in patients presenting with liver disease: a diagnostic challenge.
Our case presented with nonspecific neurological symptoms (loss of consciousness and balance difficulties), found to have acute renal failure and hepatic encephalopathy which was attributed to liver cirrhosis due to
Wilson's disease. The abnormal laboratory findings of liver and kidney failure as well as deranged hematological parameters did not raise suspicion of lymphoma as these abnormalities can present in both diseases.
Examples of metabolic diseases with hepatic presentation are tyrosinemia,
Wilson's disease, progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC), Aagenaes syndrome, glycogen storage disease, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)12-14.
Genetical and Clinical Stu dies in
Wilson's Disease. 2007.
Wilson's disease, an autosomal recessive disorder is characterized by a mutated ATP7B enzyme [1-14].
However, the basal ganglia, which is the most commonly damaged in
Wilson's disease, was not detected.
Wilson's disease and spinal canal stenosis: surgical treatment for thoracic and lumbar spinal canal stenosis in
Wilson's disease.
Two cases of
Wilson's disease, both patients had KF ring.
He said that Hepatitis can be caused by drugs, alcohol or other toxins, by infection with bacteria, viruses or parasites, and hosts of other causes including storage disorders like
Wilson's disease and Hemochromatosis; however viruses and alcohol are the most common cause of the illness.