1. Liver transplantation as a rescue therapy for severe neurologic forms of Wilson disease
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Aurélia Poujois, Rodolphe Sobesky, Wassilios G. Meissner, Anne-Sophie Brunet, Emmanuel Broussolle, Chloé Laurencin, Laurence Lion-François, Olivier Guillaud, Alain Lachaux, François Maillot, Jérémie Belin, Ephrem Salamé, Claire Vanlemmens, Bruno Heyd, Céline Bellesme, Dalila Habes, Christophe Bureau, Fabienne Ory-Magne, Pascal Chaine, Jean-Marc Trocello, Daniel Cherqui, Didier Samuel, Victor de Ledinghen, Jean-Charles Duclos-Vallée, France Woimant, National reference Centre for Wilson's Disease [Paris] (CRMR Wilson), Service de neurologie [Univ. Paris VII], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Lariboisière-Fernand-Widal [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Lariboisière-Fernand-Widal [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Service d'Electroneuromyographie et Service de Neurologie C [Hôpital Pierre Wertheimer - HCL], Hôpital neurologique et neurochirurgical Pierre Wertheimer [CHU - HCL], Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Université de Lyon, Département d'hépatologie, Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Cardiovasculaire, métabolisme, diabétologie et nutrition (CarMeN), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU Tours), Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hôpital Claude Huriez [Lille], CHU Lille, CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Université Badji Mokhtar de Annaba, CHU Toulouse [Toulouse], Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (UMRS893), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Hôpital Paul Brousse, Hôpital Haut-Lévêque [CHU Bordeaux], CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux], Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU TOURS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), Hôpital Purpan [Toulouse], and Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Drug Resistance ,Liver transplantation ,Severity of Illness Index ,Disability Evaluation ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Liver disease ,0302 clinical medicine ,Hepatolenticular Degeneration ,Liver Function Tests ,Modified Rankin Scale ,Internal medicine ,Severity of illness ,Humans ,Medicine ,Survival rate ,Retrospective Studies ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Parkinsonism ,Retrospective cohort study ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Liver Transplantation ,3. Good health ,Survival Rate ,Female ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,Liver function tests ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
ObjectiveTo evaluate the effect of liver transplantation (LT) in patients with Wilson disease (WD) with severe neurologic worsening resistant to active chelation.MethodsFrench patients with WD who underwent LT for pure neurologic indication were retrospectively studied. Before LT and at the last follow-up, neurologic impairment was evaluated with the Unified Wilson's Disease Rating Scale (UWDRS) score, disability with the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score, and hepatic function with the Model for End-stage Liver Disease score, together with the presence of a Kayser-Fleischer ring (KFR), brain MRI scores, and copper balance. The survival rate and disability at the last follow-up were the coprimary outcomes; evolution of KFR and brain MRI were the secondary outcomes. Prognosis factors were further assessed.ResultsEighteen patients had LT. All were highly dependent before LT (median mRS score 5). Neurologic symptoms were severe (median UWDRS score 105), dominated by dystonia and parkinsonism. The cumulated survival rate was 88.8% at 1 year and 72.2% at 3 and 5 years. At the last follow-up, 14 patients were alive. Their mRS and UWDRS scores improved (p< 0.0001 andp= 0.0003). Eight patients had a major improvement (78% decrease of the UWDRS score), 4 a moderate one (41% decrease), and 2 a stable status. KFR and brain MRI scores improved (p= 0.0007). Severe sepsis (p= 0.011) and intensive care unit admission (p= 0.001) before LT were significantly associated with death.ConclusionsLT is a rescue therapeutic option that should be carefully discussed in selected patients with neurologic WD resistant to anticopper therapies (chelators or zinc salts) as it might allow patients to gain physical independency with a reasonable risk.Classification of evidenceThis study provides Class IV evidence that for patients with WD with severe neurologic worsening resistant to active pharmacologic therapy, LT might decrease neurologic impairment.
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- 2020
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