Placenta abruption in a woman with Wilson’s disease: a case report

Wilson’s disease is a rare genetic disorder of copper metabolism that causes primary hepatic cirrhosis, secondary menstrual abnormalities and infertility. Following the appropriate therapy patients are asymptomatic and pregnancy may be achieved. We present a case of placental abruption in a pregnant...

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Autores principales: Theodoridis, Theodoros D, Zepiridis, Leonidas, Athanatos, Dimitrios, Dinas, Konstantinos, Tzevelekis, Filippos, Bontis, John N
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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/PMC2769465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918395
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8699
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author Theodoridis, Theodoros D
Zepiridis, Leonidas
Athanatos, Dimitrios
Dinas, Konstantinos
Tzevelekis, Filippos
Bontis, John N
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description Wilson’s disease is a rare genetic disorder of copper metabolism that causes primary hepatic cirrhosis, secondary menstrual abnormalities and infertility. Following the appropriate therapy patients are asymptomatic and pregnancy may be achieved. We present a case of placental abruption in a pregnant woman with Wilson’s disease and we review the management dilemmas and treatment options of pregnant women with Wilson’s disease.
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spelling pubmed-27694652009-11-16 Placenta abruption in a woman with Wilson’s disease: a case report Theodoridis, Theodoros D Zepiridis, Leonidas Athanatos, Dimitrios Dinas, Konstantinos Tzevelekis, Filippos Bontis, John N Cases J Case report Wilson’s disease is a rare genetic disorder of copper metabolism that causes primary hepatic cirrhosis, secondary menstrual abnormalities and infertility. Following the appropriate therapy patients are asymptomatic and pregnancy may be achieved. We present a case of placental abruption in a pregnant woman with Wilson’s disease and we review the management dilemmas and treatment options of pregnant women with Wilson’s disease. Cases Network Ltd 2009-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2769465/ /pubmed/19918395 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8699 Text en © 2009 Theodoridis 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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Theodoridis, Theodoros D
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Bontis, John N
Placenta abruption in a woman with Wilson’s disease: a case report
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title_short Placenta abruption in a woman with Wilson’s disease: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918395
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