Wilson’s Disease

1. Front Matter

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2. Overview of the Disease for the Clinician

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   Pages 1-7

3. The Clinician’s Challenge: Recognizing Wilson’s Disease

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   Pages 9-27

4. Simple Approaches to Screening and Definitive Diagnosis

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   Pages 29-48

5. Description of the Anticopper Drugs Which are Used in Wilson’s Disease Therapy

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   Pages 49-68

6. Overview of Management for the Clinician: What’s Important and What’s Not

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   Pages 69-78

7. Initial Treatment of Patients Who Present with Liver Disease

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   Pages 79-95

8. Initial Treatment of Patients Who Present with Neurologic and/or Psychiatric Disease

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   Pages 97-103

9. Maintenance Therapy

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   Pages 105-116

10. Therapy of the Presymptomatic, the Pediatric, and the Pregnant Patient

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    Pages 117-125

11. Risk Factors during Maintenance Therapy and Prognosis

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    Pages 127-134

12. Disease Pathogenesis and Genetics

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    Pages 135-147

13. Disease Pathology

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    Pages 149-155

14. History, Important Milestones, and the Future

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    Pages 157-166

15. Back Matter

    Pages 167-190

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Movement disorder specialists, general neurologists, hepatologists, general gastroenterologists, and psychiatrists are the specialists who will most likely see some Wilson's disease patients during their careers. See them - yes. Recognize and diagnose them - maybe. If you are in one of these specialties, and a patient with tremor, hepatitis, cirrhosis, apparent Parkinsonism, or mood disorder, is referred to you, will you appropriately recognize the possibility that the underlying diagnosis may be Wilson's disease? Wilson's disease is both treatable and reversible, and commonly misdiagnosed. This book aims to change this with comprehensive coverage of every aspect of Wilson's disease, from well-catalogued, easy-to-use clinical diagnostic tools to treatment methods to molecular biology.
Dr. Brewer is the world's leading expert on Wilson's disease, seeing and caring for over 300 patients with the disease during the last 20 years. He is a professor of human genetics at the University of Michigan.

• Parkinson
• biology
• cognition
• gastroenterology
• genetics
• hepatitis
• liver
• liver disease
• molecular biology

• University of Michigan Medical School, USA

  George J. Brewer

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