NEWS: Wilson Disease

[Raymond Strand <strandra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 This is an impressive report.

 Wilson's disease occurs 1 in 30,000 (more or less).
 So, to examine a hundred cases would require a population of
 3,000,000.

 A lot is known about Wilson's disease, and it is treatable,
 if you don't die from it first.

 It will be nice when Parkinson's disease is as treatable,
 because it affects something like 1 in 50.

 Ray

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E-MOVE reports from the 17th World Congress of Neurology, London, June
17-22. Poster and Platform session numbers refer to those in the abstract
book, published in Journal of the Neurological Sciences 2001;187
(supplement 1).

A hundred cases of hepatolenticular degeneration: The Croatian experience
M Relja
P0942

In this large series of patients with Wilson disease, mean age at symptom
onset was 24.9 years (SD 10.7), and age at diagnosis was 29.4 years (SD
11.2). Neurologic symptoms were present at diagnosis in 95% of patients,
with hepatic dysfunction in 35%. Tremor was seen in 72%, dysarthria in
38%, rigidity in 35%, and emotional lability or psychosis in 38%.
Kayser-Fleischer rings were present in only 66% of patients, and 37% had
normal ceruloplasmin. Family history was negative in 58%. Eighty percent
of patients were treated with penicillamine.

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                                 Ray Strand
                             Prairie Sky Design
 -----------------(   on  the Edge of the Prairie Abyss  )---------------
                          when  the  sky  is  clear
                            the ground is visible

                         49/dx PD 2 yrs/40? onset

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