Journal of Liver

Amir Houshang Mohammad Alizadeh

Publications

• Case Report
  Detection of Undiagnosed Wilson's Disease after Hepatitis A Virus Infection
  Author(s): Reza Dabiri,Ali Bastani,Amir Houshang Mohammad Alizadeh* Reza Dabiri,Ali Bastani,Amir Houshang Mohammad Alizadeh*
  
  Introduction: Some reports have considered hepatitis A as a possible factor in the development of acute decompensation in patients with Wilson’s disease. Here we report the case of a delayed diagnosis of Wilson’s disease in the end of the third decade of life in a patient infected with hepatitis A. Case report: The patient was a 26 year old woman with complaints of nausea and vomiting, anorexia, ichter, fever and epigastric pain since a week before admission. She had not any history of previous disease in herself and her families. Considering an increase in liver enzymes, serum bilirubin levels, serum IgM HAV antibody positivity and symptoms suggestive of hepatitis A associated with autoimmune hepatitis considered and patient was treated and then discharged. The patient returned two weeks later and symptoms such as ichter, fatigue and edema of the lower extremities were st.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-0889.1000130

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