ArticleNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2025
Improvement in sleep following treatment initiation in newly diagnosed, treatment-naïve patients with Wilson's disease.
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- Repurposing melatonin's therapeutic potential in Wilson disease: Addressing copper overload and redox imbalance.Redox biology · 2026Article
- Altered Sleep Patterns in Wilson's Disease Including Shortened REM Latency.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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introductionSleep disturbances (SD) are common in chronic liver diseases and neurodegenerative disorders, including Wilson's disease (WD). However, there is limited evidence regarding improvement in sleep quality following initiation of anti-copper therapy in treatment-naïve WD patients.
methodsWe performed and evaluated video-polysomnography (vPSG) in six newly diagnosed, treatment-naïve WD patients. All patients underwent overnight vPSG before and after initiation of anti-copper treatment.
resultsNone of the patients reported subjective SD during routine clinical assessment. Objective improvement in sleep efficiency (SE) was observed in five patients, with increases of 6.4%, 7.4%, 17.1%re, 17.3%, and 45.6%, respectively. In three patients, SE normalized (> 90%) after treatment. One patient demonstrated a decline in SE on follow-up (73.5% vs. 67.4%).
conclusionsInitiation of anti-copper treatment in newly diagnosed WD patients may lead to improvements in sleep quality, in addition to neurological symptom relief. These preliminary findings warrant confirmation in larger, controlled studies.
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