Archive 1995–2023
2002, volume 18, issue 2
Article
Leczenie choroby Wilsona
Farmakoterapia w Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 2002, 2, 148-152
Summary
In the present study current therapeutic possibilities were described. Wilson’s disease is a genetic disorder of cooper metabolism. Since the fifties of the past century it led inevitable to death, but after the introduction of chelating therapy the prognosis is good. Nowadays in Poland there are two specimens available in treatment of this disease: d-penicillamine and zinc sulphate, both are equally effective, but d-penicillamine has more side effects. The prognosis of survival in the majority of WD patients is favorable, provided that therapy is introduced in not very advanced stage of disease and long live continued.