Menkes Disease: Copper-Histidine Therapy

Abstract

The response to subcutaneous copper-histidine treatment (50 - 150 mcg Cu/kgm/daily) in seven children with Menkes disease (Kinky-Hair disease) is reported from the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Canada.

Keywords

• menkes disease
• skeletal deformities
• infantile spasms