[Wilson disease: liver form]. / Enfermedad de Wilson: forma hepática.
Rev Gastroenterol Peru
; 35(4): 361-5, 2015.
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Wilson disease (WD) is a disorder of copper metabolism that is inherited as an autosomal recessive, which produces toxic copper accumulation mainly in the liver and brain, in general has two ways presentation, liver at early ages and neurological in later ages. We present the case of a female patient of 21 years diagnosed of WD in liver cirrhosis that started with an edematous ascites without any neurological symptoms despite the age. Their laboratory studies showed decrease in serum ceruloplasmin and high cupruria within 24 hours of the disease , characteristic data of WD. Although WD is not a common disease should be suspected in all chronic liver disease of unknown etiology with negative viral markers and autoimmunity with or without neurological manifestations as soon as posible and starting treatment with copper chelating mainly leads to a substantial improvement the prognosis of these patients.
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01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Degeneración Hepatolenticular
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Rev Gastroenterol Peru
Asunto de la revista:
GASTROENTEROLOGIA
Año:
2015
Tipo del documento:
Article
Pais de publicación:
Perú