ABSTRACT
Wilson disease is an inborn error of copper metabolism that bas neurological and hepatic manifestations. We report a 13 years old girl and a 12 years old boy with Wilson disease. In both patient, brain computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed marked involvement of basal ganglia and other deep gray nuclei. Considering that this is a treatable disease, it should be included in the differential diagnosis of the so called "striatal necrosis of childhood"
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Adolescent , Hepatolenticular Degeneration , Neuroradiography , Brain Ischemia/diagnosis , Huntington Disease/diagnosis , Cerebrum , Diagnosis, Differential , Carbon Monoxide Poisoning/diagnosis , Neurologic Manifestations , Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methodsABSTRACT
At the Rancagua Hospital 49 patients carriers of Parkinson`s disease are monthly assisted. The treatment consists in the use of trihexiphenidyl and/or levodopa.plus benserazide and/or bromocriptine. The average monthly cost is $10.610, amount that is far from being possible to be borne by SNSS beneficiary patients. A cost projection for the treatment of this pathology in the Sixth Region in performed