[Morbus wilson--progressive fatal course of the hepatic form with apoplexy and abscess of the brain (author's transl)].

The onset with a hemolytic crisis, as often described in the literature, led to the diagnosis of Wilson's disease. Treatment was immediately started in the usual way with diet and d-penicillamin. But the disease had already caused serious liver damage and renal lesions, and the patient died fourteen weeks after diagnosis. Examination of further family members disclosed a cousine with impaired liver and kidney function, also suffering from the hepatic form of homozygous Wilson's disease.