Description of Wilson's disease
Descripción de la enfermedad de Wilson
- Date
- 1912 · confidence high
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Neurologist Kinnier Wilson described a hereditary disease combining brain degeneration and liver cirrhosis, caused by toxic copper accumulation in the body.
What it led to
- Understanding of copper metabolism in hereditary diseases
- Copper-chelating treatments from the 1950s onward