In vivo confocal microstructural analysis of corneas presenting Kayser-Fleischer rings in patients with Wilson’s disease
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Kayser-Fleischer rings of acute Wilson's disease.
Here we describe a case of a 22-year-old woman who presented with acute liver failure and Kayser-Fleischer rings suggesting the diagnosis of Wilson's disease.
متن کاملUnilateral Kayser-Fleischer ring.
A patient is presented who had unrecognised Wilson's disease. He had developed a clinically obvious Kayser-Fleischer ring in only one eye. The eye without the corneal ring had been injured in childhood and had a low intraocular pressure. Possible mechanisms for formation of a Kayser-Fleischer ring are reviewed and the lack of Kayser-Fleischer ring in this case is discussed.
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Cryptogenic cirrhosis (CC) is defined as cirrhosis occurring in an individual without an identifiable cause of liver disease, such as excessive alcohol consumption, viral hepatitis infection, hemochromatosis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, chronic intake of medications that could induce cirrhosis, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, Wilson's disease...
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Although the brownish area at the corneal periphery in the region ofDescemet's membrane was first described by Kayser (I902), and Fleischer (I9I2) recognized it as a part of Wilson's disease (hepato-lenticular degeneration), there have been no previous reports in the ophthalmic literature of the United Kingdom of a pathological study of the lesion which is now recognized as a pathognomonic find...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0004-2749
DOI: 10.5935/0004-2749.20180030