Wilson’s disease and diagnostic conundrum in a low income country

Wilson’s disease is a well-known leading cause of chronic liver disease in children. However it may remain undiagnosed in a resource limited setting for a long period. We describe a six year male child diagnosed Wilson’s disease with extreme elevation of liver enzymes which is not reported earlier....

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Autor principal: Patra, Pratap Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5491743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28690716
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.26.201.11377
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description Wilson’s disease is a well-known leading cause of chronic liver disease in children. However it may remain undiagnosed in a resource limited setting for a long period. We describe a six year male child diagnosed Wilson’s disease with extreme elevation of liver enzymes which is not reported earlier. The diagnosis was also baffling because of inconsistency of other laboratory parameters.
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spelling pubmed-54917432017-07-07 Wilson’s disease and diagnostic conundrum in a low income country Patra, Pratap Kumar Pan Afr Med J Case Report Wilson’s disease is a well-known leading cause of chronic liver disease in children. However it may remain undiagnosed in a resource limited setting for a long period. We describe a six year male child diagnosed Wilson’s disease with extreme elevation of liver enzymes which is not reported earlier. The diagnosis was also baffling because of inconsistency of other laboratory parameters. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5491743/ /pubmed/28690716 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.26.201.11377 Text en © Pratap Kumar Patra et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Wilson’s disease and diagnostic conundrum in a low income country
title_fullStr Wilson’s disease and diagnostic conundrum in a low income country
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title_short Wilson’s disease and diagnostic conundrum in a low income country
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5491743/
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