EXCESSIVE IRON STORAGE IN A PATIENT WITH WILSONS-DISEASE

We report on an otherwise healthy female, mother of two children, with severe decompensated liver cirrhosis due to an iron overload and Wils on's disease. The patient was considered heterozygote for hemochromato sis on the basis of the autosomal recessive inheritance for hemochroma tosis, the frequency of the hemochromatosis gene, and the laboratory p arameters defining her iron overload. The case is interesting because of the coincidence of Wilson's disease and excessive iron storage.