Dhakal Bishal, Prabhat K C, Karki Abinash, Bhattarai Ayush Mohan, Sapkota Sachin, Subedi Binaya, Dahal Abhinav
Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences, Sanobharyang, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Maulakalika Hospital Pvt. Ltd., Bharatpur, 10-Chitwan, Nepal.
Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2022 May 6;77:103678. doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103678. eCollection 2022 May.
Late onset Wilson disease (WD) is a rare form of WD. WD has variability of clinical presentations from acute liver failure to chronic liver disease (CLD). The hepatic and neurological variants of WD have wider variations.
A 55-year-old female, known case of CLD, presenting with generalized body swelling and abdominal pain, was diagnosed with late onset WD with normal neuro-psychiatric status. She was treated with zinc and considered for liver transplantation.
Late onset WD is itself a rare form of WD. Within it, neurological manifestations are common in late onset WD, which was quite opposite as compared to our case. Similarly, diagnostic delay has been a concern in late onset WD with CLD as with our case.
In spite of being uncommon in later age, WD and its different variations like with normal neuro-psychiatric status should be considered as an etiology in cases of unexplained liver diseases.
迟发性威尔逊病(WD)是WD的一种罕见形式。WD的临床表现具有多样性,从急性肝衰竭到慢性肝病(CLD)不等。WD的肝脏和神经学变体有更广泛的变化。
一名55岁女性,已知患有CLD,出现全身肿胀和腹痛,被诊断为迟发性WD,神经精神状态正常。她接受了锌治疗并被考虑进行肝移植。
迟发性WD本身就是WD的一种罕见形式。在其中,神经学表现在迟发性WD中很常见,这与我们的病例情况相反。同样,与我们的病例一样,诊断延迟一直是迟发性WD合并CLD的一个问题。
尽管WD在老年时并不常见,但在不明原因肝病的病例中,应将WD及其不同变体(如神经精神状态正常的情况)视为病因。