Liver Series: Wilson's Disease
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this next episode of our Liver Series, we will discuss a rare genetic disorder that causes copper to build up in the body known as Wilson's Disease. Which can lead to damage to the liver, brain and other organs.
Join Dr. Niket Sonpal explains how Wilson's Disease is diagnosed and treated. He will also discuss the symptoms of Wilson's Disease, which can vary depending on the organ system that is affected.
August 7, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Copper. It is element number 29 on the periodic table. |
| 0:04.0 | It's considered semi-precious, non-ferrous, malleable, |
| 0:08.0 | and is used in hundreds of applications, including electricity, plumbing, and building construction. |
| 0:14.0 | In fact, 46% of all copper is used in building construction. |
| 0:18.6 | It has a reddish metallic coloring, |
| 0:20.8 | and it's the only other metal besides gold that is not silver or gray. |
| 0:25.0 | Humans have been using copper for 10,000 years. |
| 0:28.0 | The Statue of Liberty is made of 179,000 pounds of copper, and even the Dead Sea Scrolls have been known to be made with rare animal skins, |
| 0:37.0 | but one of them was also recovered to contain copper. |
| 0:41.0 | It's everywhere. |
| 0:42.0 | And we also know that if I'm bringing it up, it's also in health care. |
| 0:45.8 | And that's what brings us to a topic today. The question of copper, and is it good for you or |
| 0:50.8 | is it bad for you? But what we're going to talk about is |
| 0:53.5 | copper when it's in excess in other words Wilson's disease in our ongoing |
| 0:58.1 | series here on liver disease. I'm Dr. Naked Sun Paul your friendly |
| 1:01.8 | neighborhood internist and gastrointestinal tarantroologist, |
| 1:03.9 | so sit tight and we're going to talk about Wilson's disease, the first thing we have to really get out of a way is how does it happen? |
| 1:25.5 | Well, we know that foods are going to contribute all of the copper that's consumed by humans. |
| 1:30.5 | So it's not that the person's ingesting too much. It's a problem of excreting copper. |
| 1:35.0 | You see, Wilson's disease also called Hepatolyticular degeneration, which gives us an idea of which two major organ systems are affected. |
| 1:43.4 | Hepato being the liver, lenticular being the brain, |
| 1:46.5 | forms from basically a defect in hepatocellular copper transport. |
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