A Case Report of Misdiagnosis of Psychotic Symptoms Predominant Wilson's Disease

Wilson's disease is an autosomal recessive disease of abnormal copper metabolism. Psychosis is a rare manifestation of Wilson's disease. Few cases of misdiagnosing Wilson's disease as an etiology of psychosis were reported in the literature. We report a case of a 42-year-old patient,...

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Autores principales: Shah, Bhupendra, Limbu, Suren
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6126283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271060
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jnrp.jnrp_515_17
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description Wilson's disease is an autosomal recessive disease of abnormal copper metabolism. Psychosis is a rare manifestation of Wilson's disease. Few cases of misdiagnosing Wilson's disease as an etiology of psychosis were reported in the literature. We report a case of a 42-year-old patient, who was diagnosed with a schizoaffective disorder and treated with antipsychotics for 3 years with no significant improvement. On reevaluation, we the patient was diagnosed to have Wilson's disease. The patient's symptoms improved significantly with chelation therapy.
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spelling pubmed-61262832018-10-01 A Case Report of Misdiagnosis of Psychotic Symptoms Predominant Wilson's Disease Shah, Bhupendra Limbu, Suren J Neurosci Rural Pract Case Report Wilson's disease is an autosomal recessive disease of abnormal copper metabolism. Psychosis is a rare manifestation of Wilson's disease. Few cases of misdiagnosing Wilson's disease as an etiology of psychosis were reported in the literature. We report a case of a 42-year-old patient, who was diagnosed with a schizoaffective disorder and treated with antipsychotics for 3 years with no significant improvement. On reevaluation, we the patient was diagnosed to have Wilson's disease. The patient's symptoms improved significantly with chelation therapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6126283/ /pubmed/30271060 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jnrp.jnrp_515_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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