Wilson disease

Wilson disease is a very rare inherited multisystemic disease presenting non-specific neurological, hepatic, psychiatric or osseo-muscular manifestations due to excessive copper deposition in the body.

Hepatitis

Inflammation of the liver.


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PMID (PMCID)
23441660
 MIXED_SAMPLE Adult
Tacrolimus-induced thrombotic microangiopathy in orthotopic liver transplant patients: case series of four patients.
Nwaba A, MacQuillan G, Adams LA, Garas G, Delriviere L, Augustson B, DeBoer B, Moody H, Jeffrey GP.
Intern Med J. 2013;43(3):328-33.
The indications for OLTX in the four patients were fulminant hepatic failure in three (Wilson disease, paracetamol overdose and post-partum thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura) and hepatitis C virus-related cirrhosis.
19246413
 MALE
Recurrent limb weakness in a 17-year-old boy.
Thapa R, Biswas B, Mallick D.
Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2009;48(5):555-7.
Careful search of an underlying etiology in children presenting with hypokalemic weakness of the limbs in the face of metabolic acidosis and unexplained hepatitis may reveal Wilson disease.
14669425
 FEMALE Adult
[Pregnancy, delivery and puerperium in patients after liver transplantation].
Preis K, Leszczynska K, Krolikowska B, Swiatkowska-Freund M.
Ginekol Pol. 2003;74(10):1246-50.
For woman with the Wilson disease it was a second pregnancy and for woman with lupoid hepatitis it was the first pregnancy.
14669425
 FEMALE Adult
[Pregnancy, delivery and puerperium in patients after liver transplantation].
Preis K, Leszczynska K, Krolikowska B, Swiatkowska-Freund M.
Ginekol Pol. 2003;74(10):1246-50.
We report two cases of successful pregnancies in women after liver transplantation for end-stage liver dysfunction caused in one case by Wilson disease and in the second one by lupoid hepatitis.