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Kayser-Fleischer Rings & Wilson's Disease.

Qin Jian Low1, Carwen Siaw1, Ri An Lee2, Seng Wee Cheo3.   

Abstract

Kayser-Fleischer rings was first describe in year 1934 due to the abnormal accumulation of copper1. They are brownish rings resulting from pigmented granular cooper deposits on the Descemet's membrane. The cooper deposition are more pronounced in the superior and inferior cornea poles best seen from a slit-lamp1-2. Kayser-Fleischer rings are highly suggestive of Wilson's disease but have been reported in other diseases like cholestasis and primary biliary cirrhosis2. Kayser-Fleischer rings can be seen in 95% of cases of Wilson disease with neurological or psychiatry symptoms and about 55-65% of cases with hepatic involvement2-3. Wilson disease is an inborn error of copper metabolism and can manifest with hepatic, neurologic or psychiatric symptoms3.
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Year:  2020        PMID: 31917404     DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcaa005

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  QJM        ISSN: 1460-2393


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1.  A Novel Mutation of ATP7B Gene in a Case of Wilson Disease.

Authors:  Cigdem Yuce Kahraman; Ali Islek; Abdulgani Tatar; Özlem Özdemir; Adil Mardinglu; Hasan Turkez
Journal:  Medicina (Kaunas)       Date:  2021-01-29       Impact factor: 2.430

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