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Wilson Disease

Wilson disease is a rare inherited disorder that prevents your body from getting rid of extra copper. You need a small amount of copper from food to stay healthy. Too much copper is poisonous.

Normally, your liver releases extra copper into bile, a digestive fluid. With Wilson disease, the copper builds up in your liver, and it releases the copper directly into your bloodstream. This can cause damage to your brain, kidneys, and eyes.

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  1. Wilson Disease (National Library of Medicine)  
    Wilson disease is a rare inherited disorder that prevents your body from getting rid of extra copper. You ... extra copper into bile, a digestive fluid. With Wilson disease, the copper builds up in your liver, and ...
  2. Wilson disease is an inherited disorder in which excessive amounts of copper accumulate in the body, particularly in the liver, brain, and eyes. The signs and ...
  3. Wilson disease is an inherited disorder in which there is too much copper in the body's tissues. The ... Wilson disease is a rare inherited disorder. If both parents carry a non-working (variant) gene for Wilson ...
  4. ... more than 250 ATP7B gene mutations that cause Wilson disease. About half the mutations change one of the ... European ancestry. Approximately one-third of Asians with Wilson disease have a mutation that replaces the amino acid ...
  5. Penicillamine is used to treat Wilson's disease (an inherited condition that causes copper to build up in the body and may result in serious symptoms) and cystinuria (an ...
  6. ... in people with diabetes. This type of kidney disease is called diabetic nephropathy.
  7. ... often used with other tests to help diagnose Wilson disease . Wilson disease is a rare genetic disorder that prevents the body from removing extra copper. Wilson disease can lead to a harmful buildup of copper ... a ceruloplasmin test if you have symptoms of Wilson disease. Even though people are born with the disease, ...
  8. ... also been reported to influence the onset of Wilson disease, an inherited disorder in which excessive amounts of copper build up in the body. Wilson disease is caused by variants in the ATP7B gene, ...
  9. Hepatic Encephalopathy Video (American Liver Foundation)  
    ... Gilbert Syndrome Hemochromatosis Lysosomal Acide Lipase Deficiency (LALD) Wilson Disease Treatment Know Your Team Liver Transplant Liver Transplant ... Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis (PFIC) Gilbert Syndrome Reye's Syndrome Wilson Disease Parents Liver Disease for Teen and Young Adults ...
  10. Alcohol Associated Liver Disease Video (American Liver Foundation)  
    ... Gilbert Syndrome Hemochromatosis Lysosomal Acide Lipase Deficiency (LALD) Wilson Disease Treatment Know Your Team Liver Transplant Liver Transplant ... Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis (PFIC) Gilbert Syndrome Reye's Syndrome Wilson Disease Parents Liver Disease for Teen and Young Adults ...
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