Pediatric Neurology Briefs (Aug 1993)

Lorenzo Oil Therapy for Adrenoleukodystrophy

  • J Gordon Millichap

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-7-8-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 8
pp. 62 – 62

Abstract

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Dietary therapy with glycerol trioleate and glycerol trierucate (Lorenzo oil) was tested in 108 adult patients with adrenomyeloneuropathy phenotype of adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD.

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