Zinc monotherapy and a low-copper diet are beneficial in patients with Wilson disease after liver transplantation

CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 905-907

  Ni, Wang ^a   Dong, Qin Yun ^a   Zhang, Yue ^a   Wu, Zhi Ying ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; BACLOFEN; BILIRUBIN; CERULOPLASMIN; CLONAZEPAM; COPPER; GLUCONATE ZINC; LEVODOPA; PENICILLAMINE; TACROLIMUS; TRIHEXYPHENIDYL; WILSON DISEASE PROTEIN;

CHELATION THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; DEPRESSION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSTONIA; EDEMA; FOLLOW UP; FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MONOTHERAPY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SLURRED SPEECH; SPLENOMEGALY; TORSION DYSTONIA; TREMOR; WILSON DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COPPER; DIET; FEMALE; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; YOUNG ADULT; ZINC;

EID: 84885917985     PISSN: 17555930     EISSN: 17555949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cns.12167     Document Type: Letter

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