Treatment of Wilson's disease with zinc

GJ Brewer - The Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine, 1999 - translationalres.com
The Editorial1 by Tjaard Hoogenraad that appeared in relationship to our paper2 on long
term follow-up of zinc treatment in Wilson's disease patients criticized our work in an
inaccurate and inappropriate manner. Our paper was number 15 in a series on zinc
treatment of Wilson's disease, with many of the articles having been published in this
journal. This series of papers, over a 15-year period, laid the detailed scientific groundwork
for the 1997 approval of zinc as a therapy for Wilson's disease by the US Food and Drug …