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Hemorrhagic colitis induced by trientine in a 51-year-old patient with Wilson’s disease waiting for liver transplantation: A case report
BACKGROUND: Wilson’s disease (WD) is a rare inherited disorder of copper metabolism. Treatment consists of chelating agents, but side effects are common. We describe a patient who developed colitis during trientine treatment leading to decompensation of liver cirrhosis. CASE SUMMARY: A healthy 51-ye...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9453458/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36157863 http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v14.i8.1687 |
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author | Schult, Andreas Andersson, Matts Asin-Cayuela, Jorge Olsson, Karl Sigvard |
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description | BACKGROUND: Wilson’s disease (WD) is a rare inherited disorder of copper metabolism. Treatment consists of chelating agents, but side effects are common. We describe a patient who developed colitis during trientine treatment leading to decompensation of liver cirrhosis. CASE SUMMARY: A healthy 51-year-old woman was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis due to decompensation with ascites. Etiologic evaluation raised suspicion of hereditary hemochromatosis because of compound heterozygosity HFE p.C282Y/p.H63D, and phlebotomy was started. Re-evaluation showed low ceruloplasmin, increased urinary copper excretion and the presence of Kayser-Fleischer rings. WD was confirmed by genetic analysis. Because of decompensated cirrhosis, she was referred for liver transplant evaluation. Simultaneously, treatment with trientine was initiated. Liver function initially stabilized, and the patient was not accepted for a liver transplant. Shortly after this, she developed severe hemorrhagic colitis, most probably a side effect of trientine. During that episode, she decompensated with hepatic encephalopathy. Because of a second decompensating event, she was accepted for liver transplantation, and an uneventful transplantation was carried out after clinical improvement of colitis. CONCLUSION: Despite WD being a rare disorder, it is important to consider because it can present with a plethora of symptoms from childhood to an elderly age. Colitis should be recognized as a serious adverse drug reaction to trientine treatment that can result in decompensated liver disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-94534582022-09-23 Hemorrhagic colitis induced by trientine in a 51-year-old patient with Wilson’s disease waiting for liver transplantation: A case report Schult, Andreas Andersson, Matts Asin-Cayuela, Jorge Olsson, Karl Sigvard World J Hepatol Case Report BACKGROUND: Wilson’s disease (WD) is a rare inherited disorder of copper metabolism. Treatment consists of chelating agents, but side effects are common. We describe a patient who developed colitis during trientine treatment leading to decompensation of liver cirrhosis. CASE SUMMARY: A healthy 51-year-old woman was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis due to decompensation with ascites. Etiologic evaluation raised suspicion of hereditary hemochromatosis because of compound heterozygosity HFE p.C282Y/p.H63D, and phlebotomy was started. Re-evaluation showed low ceruloplasmin, increased urinary copper excretion and the presence of Kayser-Fleischer rings. WD was confirmed by genetic analysis. Because of decompensated cirrhosis, she was referred for liver transplant evaluation. Simultaneously, treatment with trientine was initiated. Liver function initially stabilized, and the patient was not accepted for a liver transplant. Shortly after this, she developed severe hemorrhagic colitis, most probably a side effect of trientine. During that episode, she decompensated with hepatic encephalopathy. Because of a second decompensating event, she was accepted for liver transplantation, and an uneventful transplantation was carried out after clinical improvement of colitis. CONCLUSION: Despite WD being a rare disorder, it is important to consider because it can present with a plethora of symptoms from childhood to an elderly age. Colitis should be recognized as a serious adverse drug reaction to trientine treatment that can result in decompensated liver disease. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022-08-27 2022-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9453458/ /pubmed/36157863 http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v14.i8.1687 Text en ©The Author(s) 2022. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Schult, Andreas Andersson, Matts Asin-Cayuela, Jorge Olsson, Karl Sigvard Hemorrhagic colitis induced by trientine in a 51-year-old patient with Wilson’s disease waiting for liver transplantation: A case report |
title | Hemorrhagic colitis induced by trientine in a 51-year-old patient with Wilson’s disease waiting for liver transplantation: A case report |
title_full | Hemorrhagic colitis induced by trientine in a 51-year-old patient with Wilson’s disease waiting for liver transplantation: A case report |
title_fullStr | Hemorrhagic colitis induced by trientine in a 51-year-old patient with Wilson’s disease waiting for liver transplantation: A case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Hemorrhagic colitis induced by trientine in a 51-year-old patient with Wilson’s disease waiting for liver transplantation: A case report |
title_short | Hemorrhagic colitis induced by trientine in a 51-year-old patient with Wilson’s disease waiting for liver transplantation: A case report |
title_sort | hemorrhagic colitis induced by trientine in a 51-year-old patient with wilson’s disease waiting for liver transplantation: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9453458/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36157863 http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v14.i8.1687 |
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