The 19-year-old Chen, whose weight was close to over 100, accidentally found that the liver index exceeded the standard when he participated in the military service examination. At first, the doctor diagnosed fatty liver and suggested that he start...
The 19-year-old Chen, whose weight was close to over 100, accidentally found that the liver index exceeded the standard when he participated in the military service examination. At first, the doctor diagnosed fatty liver and suggested that he start to lose weight. Although he was successful in losing weight a year later, the liver index remained high. He turned around and found that the copper ion in the urine had abnormally high spikes, which confirmed that Virson's disease was diagnosed.
Lin Youda, attending physician of the Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology at the Affiliated Hospital of Asia University, said that Virson's disease is a traditional disease. Anomalous genes cause problems with ion of copper, causing excessive amounts of copper to sink in the liver, brain, cornea, etc., resulting in abnormal functions of the organ. These symptoms often occur in the late stages of adolescents and are often dominated by liver or neurologic symptoms. Some people's eyes even have typical brown green rings due to copper ion accumulation.
{9 99}Statistics: about half of the patients, the liver is the only organ affected. In the early stages of the disease, the liver index is slightly higher than the normal value. As hepatitis continues to develop evil, symptoms such as jaundice, liver, spleen and kidney, and ascites will occur.
In addition, excessive copper will accumulate in the brain and cause nerve damage, and the patient will gradually show abnormal neurologic manifestations, such as tremor, involuntary movement, unclear speech, unstable pace, or other mental illnesses, such as depression, irritability, personality changes, and even self-killing behavior; if not treated, the patient's liver and brain will continue to suffer from injury and die early.
Lin Youda mentioned that for Virson's disease, the longer the disease develops, the more severe the damage it will cause on the body's organs, so the treatment plan should be carried out as early as possible. The most common drug is copper stinger, which can combine copper in the serum and promote its excretion, so as to reduce the accumulation of copper in various groups throughout the body. Other aid drugs include salt acetate, which can prevent the absorption of copper in the kidneys and kidneys from the absorption of copper in food.
Wilson's disease is an abnormal genetic disease, so patients should take medicine at all. Lin Youda reminds that once the medicine is stopped, the relevant symptoms may be recurred. As for foods with high copper content such as chocolate, stone fruit, animal liver, shelled seafood, mushrooms, etc. in daily diet should be avoided as much as possible. Since the patient's brothers and sisters also have a chance of getting sick, it is recommended that they undergo screening regardless of whether there is any symptoms.
