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