Yes, it’s that time of the week – time for another article in the House, M.D. Project. This time it’s episode 6 of season 1, named “The Socratic Method”.

The story in that episode is of Lucille Palmeiro, a woman who supposedly suffers from schizophrenia. At the beginning of the episode she gets something we’ve already discussed – a DVT – meaning deep vein thrombosis, or a blood clot that forms inside the leg veins. The  blood clot than travels from her leg to her lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism. To understand what this all means, you can read our article about DVT here.

After the woman vomits blood, the team suspect a bunch of diseases, including vitamin K deficiency, but discovers a tumor in her liver, which is removed.

Finally Dr. House connects all the dots and finds out the woman has Wilson disease, which we covered here in the past – a condition in which there are high levels of copper in the body. Why does it cause her schizophrenia-like condition? You can read about it in our article about Wilson disease here.

Yes, the post today is short Our old time readers already know about DVT and Wilson’s. For those of you who didn’t have the chance yet, you can read our articles above.

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