Late onset Wilson Disease with normal neuro-psychiatric status: A case report

Late onset Wilson disease (WD) is a rare form of WD. WD has variability of clinical presentations from acute liver failure to chronic liver disease (CLD). The hepatic and neurological variants of WD have wider variations.

A 55-year-old female, known case of CLD, presenting with generalized body swelling and abdominal pain, was diagnosed with late onset WD with normal neuro-psychiatric status. She was treated with zinc and considered for liver transplantation.

Late onset WD is itself a rare form of WD. Within it, neurological manifestations are common in late onset WD, which was quite opposite as compared to our case. Similarly, diagnostic delay has been a concern in late onset WD with CLD as with our case.

In spite of being uncommon in later age, WD and its different variations like with normal neuro-psychiatric status should be considered as an etiology in cases of unexplained liver diseases.