Rare Initial Presentation of Wilson’s Disease as Acute Encephalopathy with Recurrent Seizure

Basal ganglia-based movement abnormalities are the hallmark of the neuropsychiatric presentation of Wilson’s disease. Seizures are rarely reported in Wilson’s disease, especially as the initial presentation. We report a case of a 17-year-old male who was admitted with recurrent seizures and initiall...

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Autores principales: Leelamani, Vinitha, George, Jacob
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: OMJ 2023
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10130978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37122421
http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2023.17
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description Basal ganglia-based movement abnormalities are the hallmark of the neuropsychiatric presentation of Wilson’s disease. Seizures are rarely reported in Wilson’s disease, especially as the initial presentation. We report a case of a 17-year-old male who was admitted with recurrent seizures and initially treated as a case of encephalitis and on subsequent follow-up diagnosed with Wilson’s disease. This case highlights the importance of considering the possibility of Wilson’s disease in young patients presenting with unexplained encephalopathy.
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spelling pubmed-101309782023-04-27 Rare Initial Presentation of Wilson’s Disease as Acute Encephalopathy with Recurrent Seizure Leelamani, Vinitha George, Jacob Oman Med J Case Reports Basal ganglia-based movement abnormalities are the hallmark of the neuropsychiatric presentation of Wilson’s disease. Seizures are rarely reported in Wilson’s disease, especially as the initial presentation. We report a case of a 17-year-old male who was admitted with recurrent seizures and initially treated as a case of encephalitis and on subsequent follow-up diagnosed with Wilson’s disease. This case highlights the importance of considering the possibility of Wilson’s disease in young patients presenting with unexplained encephalopathy. OMJ 2023-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10130978/ /pubmed/37122421 http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2023.17 Text en The OMJ is Published Bimonthly and Copyrighted 2023 by the OMSB. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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title_full Rare Initial Presentation of Wilson’s Disease as Acute Encephalopathy with Recurrent Seizure
title_fullStr Rare Initial Presentation of Wilson’s Disease as Acute Encephalopathy with Recurrent Seizure
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title_short Rare Initial Presentation of Wilson’s Disease as Acute Encephalopathy with Recurrent Seizure
title_sort rare initial presentation of wilson’s disease as acute encephalopathy with recurrent seizure
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10130978/
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