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Hepatolenticular Degeneration
What is Hepatolenticular Degeneration ?
A hereditary degenerative disease in which a deficiency of ceruloplasmin causes copper to accumulate in the liver, brain, and other tissues.
Causes of Hepatolenticular Degeneration
Liver damage can lead to the accumulation of ammonia and other toxic materials when the organ doesn't function properly to metabolize and excrete them.
Hepatocerebral degeneration and the neurological syndrome it causes may occur in any case of acquired liver failure including alcoholic hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, viral hepatitis, and others.
Symptoms of Hepatolenticular Deneneration
Symptoms may include:
- tremor (shaking of arms, head)
- ataxia (unsteady walking)
difficulty walking
- chorea (uncontrolled body movements)
- myoclonus (spasm of muscles)
- asterixis
- impairment of intellectual function
- coma
- jaundice
- rigidity
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