Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy in a patient with haemachromatosis: a case report

A 64-year-old British Caucasian man presented with red skin wheals and breathlessness and then developed a progressive neurological syndrome. Investigation revealed hereditary haemachromatosis, porphyria, and a myelodysplastic syndrome. No unifying diagnosis was made, and his neurological symptoms r...

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Autores principales: Scurr, Cosmo, Sampson, Barry, Ball, Joanna, Gabriel, Carolyn
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918559
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6168
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description A 64-year-old British Caucasian man presented with red skin wheals and breathlessness and then developed a progressive neurological syndrome. Investigation revealed hereditary haemachromatosis, porphyria, and a myelodysplastic syndrome. No unifying diagnosis was made, and his neurological symptoms remained unexplained, until further studies revealed an underlying copper deficiency.
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spelling pubmed-27692692009-11-16 Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy in a patient with haemachromatosis: a case report Scurr, Cosmo Sampson, Barry Ball, Joanna Gabriel, Carolyn Cases J Case report A 64-year-old British Caucasian man presented with red skin wheals and breathlessness and then developed a progressive neurological syndrome. Investigation revealed hereditary haemachromatosis, porphyria, and a myelodysplastic syndrome. No unifying diagnosis was made, and his neurological symptoms remained unexplained, until further studies revealed an underlying copper deficiency. Cases Network Ltd 2009-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2769269/ /pubmed/19918559 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6168 Text en © 2009 Scurr et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy in a patient with haemachromatosis: a case report
title Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy in a patient with haemachromatosis: a case report
title_full Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy in a patient with haemachromatosis: a case report
title_fullStr Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy in a patient with haemachromatosis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy in a patient with haemachromatosis: a case report
title_short Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy in a patient with haemachromatosis: a case report
title_sort copper deficiency myeloneuropathy in a patient with haemachromatosis: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918559
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6168
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