{"id":9607,"date":"2022-01-19T15:16:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/?p=9607"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:25:23","slug":"wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic Scoring System for Wilson\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Normal dietary consumption and absorption of copper exceed\u00a0the metabolic need, and homeostasis of this element is maintained exclusively by the biliary excretion of copper. Wilson\u2019s disease is an inherited disorder in which defective biliary excretion\u00a0of copper leads to its accumulation, particularly in liver and brain.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scoring system developed for Wilson\u2019s disease (Leipzig)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 63.5741%;\"><strong>Clinical and Laboratory Presentation<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 36.4259%; text-align: center;\"><strong>Points<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 63.5741%;\">Kayser\u2013Fleischer rings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Present<\/li>\n<li>Absent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 36.4259%; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 63.5741%;\">Neurologic symptoms**<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Severe<\/li>\n<li>Mild<\/li>\n<li>Absent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 36.4259%; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 63.5741%;\">Serum ceruloplasmin<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Normal (&gt;0.2 g\/L)<\/li>\n<li>0.1-0.2 g\/L<\/li>\n<li>&lt;0.1 g\/L<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 36.4259%; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>0<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 63.5741%;\">Coombs-negative hemolytic anemia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Present<\/li>\n<li>Absent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 36.4259%; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 63.5741%;\">Liver copper (in the absence of cholestasis)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&gt;5x ULN (&gt;4 \u03bcmol\/g)<\/li>\n<li>0.8-4 \u03bcmol\/g<\/li>\n<li>Normal (&lt;0.8 \u03bcmol\/g)<\/li>\n<li>Rhodanine-positive granules*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 36.4259%; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n-1<br \/>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 63.5741%;\">Urinary copper (in the absence of acute hepatitis)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Normal<\/li>\n<li>1-2x ULN<\/li>\n<li>&gt;2x ULN<\/li>\n<li>Normal, but &gt;5x ULN after D-penicillamine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 36.4259%; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>0<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n2<br \/>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 63.5741%;\">Mutation analysis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On both chromosomes detected<\/li>\n<li>On 1 chromosome detected<\/li>\n<li>No mutations detected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 36.4259%; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\" colspan=\"2\">TOTAL SCORE Evaluation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 or more Diagnosis established<\/li>\n<li>3 Diagnosis possible, more tests needed<\/li>\n<li>2 or less Diagnosis very unlikely<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>*If no quantitative liver copper available, **or typical abnormalities at brain magnetic resonance imaging. KF, Kayser\u2013Fleischer; ULN, upper limit of normal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>European Association for Study of Liver. EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Wilson&#8217;s disease. J Hepatol. 2012 Mar;56(3):671-85. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/22340672\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kasztelan-Szczerbinska B, Cichoz-Lach H. Wilson&#8217;s Disease: An Update on the Diagnostic Workup and Management. J Clin Med. 2021 Oct 30;10(21):5097. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/34768617\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created Jan 17, 2022.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[14,2466,51,50,445,794,494,507,646],"class_list":["post-9607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gastroenterology","tag-diagnostic","tag-diagnostica","tag-disease","tag-enfermedad","tag-puntuacion","tag-scoring","tag-sistema","tag-system","tag-wilson"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9607"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9624,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions\/9624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}