In patients chronically treated for Wilson's disease with trientine hydrochloride (Syprine®), would you expect development of neurologic symptoms?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
On trientine, patients with asymptomatic WD should remain asymptomatic. The onset of neurological symptoms in someone with only hepatic disease on maintenance therapy represents treatment failure. Precise rates and etiologies of treatment failure are lacking, though one cohort review documented 19% ...