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View Post: <i>Wilson's disease</i>: An Indian perspective Taly AB, Prashanth ...
26 Nov 2009 by Taly AB, Prashanth LK, Sinha S  
Wilson's disease (WD) is an autosomal recessive disease involving a defect of copper transport by the hepatic lysosomes. It leads to excess copper deposition in the liver, the brain, the kidneys and the skeletal system, affecting most ..... Arima M, Sano I. Genetic studies of Wilson's disease in Japan. Birth defects 1968;4:54-9. Back to cited text no. 9. 10. Yachha SK, Sharma BC, Khanduri A, Srivastava A. Current spectrum of hepatobiliary disorders in northern India. ...
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View Post: Wilson's Disease Symptoms, Treatments
Diet to Cure Wilson ...
6 Nov 2009 by pal   ...
View Blog: Basal Ganglia Damage Treatments. Basal Ganglia Disorders Cure A group of nucleic structures in the brain

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View Post: Cirrhosis of Liver Prevention And Treatment
21 Nov 2009
Cirrhosis can also be caused by numerous other diseases ranging from viral hepatitis to genetic diseases. Cirrhosis is a complication of many liver diseases that is characterized by abnormal structure and function of the liver. The diseases that lead to cirrhosis do ... Excessive intake of alcohol, chronic hepatitis, autoimmune disease, fatty liver disease, certain drugs, infections, diseases of bile ducts, inherited diseases such as hemochromatosis, Wilson disease etc. ...
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View Post: HCV Awareness: What Is Cirrhosis? What Causes Cirrhosis?
11 hours ago by Scott Weinstein  
Eventually the patient can develop cirrhosis. Some genetic conditions * Hemochromatosis - iron accumulates in the liver and other parts of the body. * Wilson's disease - copper accumulates in the liver and other parts of the body. ...
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View Post: Look at me first before we decide your health coverage ...
5 Nov 2009 by docworkorange  
A rare hereditary disorder known as Wilson's disease can cause copper to accumulate in various tissues, including those in the brain and liver. Copper deposits sometimes form on the inner surface of the cornea (though they appear to a ...
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View Post: Nutritional Balancing » Blog Archive » Cadmium and its Health Effects
14 hours ago by Joy Feldman  
According to Dr. Wilson, “cadmium is among the most toxic of the heavy metals, with acceptable levels one tenth that of most of the others.”It also contributes to many mental illnesses, particularly violence and other related disorders of ... Birth Defects and Developmental Disorders. Birth defects often are related to cadmium, when it replaces zinc and other metals in vital genetic functions in the body. This causes defective genetic expression, which is not the same as ...
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View Post: 21st century ultimate medical guide to genetic brain disorders ...
28 Jul 2009 by admin  
still other disorders are due to a combination of genetic changes and other outside factors. some examples of genetic brain disorders include leukodystrophies, phenylketonuria, tay-sachs disease, and wilson disease. ...
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View Post: Wilson's Disease : Symptoms and Treatment
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30 May 2009 by Mentola   ...
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View Post: VOICE OF INDIA - They gifted life this Diwali to kidney patients
20 Oct 2009
The parents of 27 year old computer hardware engineer, Hardik Shah died after a brain clot became life donor to three girls. He was the only son of Vikram and Praveena. Losing the only son just before Diwali festival was traumatic, but they decided ... The beneficiaries included Sakshi Patel, 27, whose kidney had failed and Kusum Parmar, 27, wife of a laborers and a patient of rare liver disorder called Wilsons Disease. It. is a recessive genetic disorder in which copper ...
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View Post: ENY-740/IN722: Emerging Infectious Diseases
19 Jun 2007
vCJD has different genetic profile and different clinical and pathological characteristics than CJD. Recent research suggests that the abnormal protein itself may not be infectious, but is a pathological result of an infectious virus ..... Many factors influence the burden of infectious disease, and environmental factors change the distribution and impact of infections through many mechanisms (Wilson 2000). For example, deforestation, with fragmentation of habitat, ...
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