Menkes Disease Definition

Menkes Disease Sentence Examples

• Severe alterations in copper metabolism occur in two genetic diseases, Wilson's disease and Menkes disease.

• Children with Menkes disease have characteristic kinky hair, seizures, developmental failures, and progressive degeneration of the brain.

• Children with Menkes disease are sometimes helped temporarily by intravenous injections of copper supplements.

• Children diagnosed with Menkes disease rarely live past their third birthday.

• Such genetic diseases as Wilson's disease and Menkes disease cannot be prevented as of the early 2000s.