Wilson’s Disease Surgery. Untreated Wilson’s disease may cause severe liver damage that requires you to have a liver transplant. A surgeon will remove your damaged liver and replace it with a healthy ...

Wilson’s disease: This causes your liver to absorb copper instead of releasing it into your bile ducts. Eventually, your liver may become too damaged to store more copper, ...

Liver diseases are any diseases that affect the functioning of the liver. Liver diseases can be inherited (such as Wilson disease and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency) or acquired (for example ...

One of the most common causes of liver disease besides alcohol is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). This happens ...

Pathogenesis. The Wilson's disease gene encodes a 7.5-kilobase mRNA that is abundantly expressed in the human liver. Consistent with this observation, immunoblot analysis using an antibody ...

Wilson's disease is a rare genetic disorder where the body cannot properly eliminate excess copper, causing it to build up in vital organs like the liver, brain, and eyes.

According to doctors, the symptoms of Wilson's disease vary a lot from one person to another. It is present at birth, but the symptoms do not appear until copper builds up in your liver, brain ...

Monopar Therapeutics Inc. presented new data on its drug candidate ALXN1840 (tiomolybdate choline) for Wilson disease at the European Association for the Study of the Liver International Liver ...