Treatment of Wilson's disease with zinc.
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Gretchen M. Hill; George J. Brewer; Ananda S. Prasad; Connie R. Hydrick; Deborah
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Article
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1987
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The standard therapy for preventing copper accumulation in Wilson's disease, D-penicillamine, has been a life-saving drug, but it has many side effects and some patients are completely intolerant. We have been using oral zinc as another approach to the therapy for Wilson's disease, with copper balan