Steely hair disease

Introduction: Steely hair disease

Description of Steely hair disease

Steely hair disease (medical condition): Genetic disease of copper deficiency....more »

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Menkes Disease:
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Steely hair disease: An inherited disorder characterized by progressive mental deterioration, kinked, twisted and brittle hair and skeletal changes. It is caused by a deficiency of copper in the cells and patients usually only survive for a few years. Also called Menkes kinky hair syndrome or kinky hair disease.

Steely hair disease: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Steely hair disease:

• Hair disease
• Hair
• Hair symptoms (838 causes)
• Hair disorder
• Inherited
• Inherited disease
• Inherited disorder
• Disorder
• Progressive

Steely hair disease: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Steely hair disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Steely hair disease, or a subtype of Steely hair disease, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Steely hair disease as a Disease

Steely hair disease: Another name for Menkes Disease (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Menkes Disease
  »Symptoms of Menkes Disease
  »Treatments for Menkes Disease

Steely hair disease: Related Diseases

Steely hair disease: Steely hair disease is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Congenital conditions - metabolic disorders
• Congenital conditions
• Deficiency conditions
• Metabolic conditions

Symptoms of Steely hair disease (Menkes Disease)

Some of the symptoms of Steely hair disease incude:

• Premature birth - of a baby with the disease
• Developmental delay
• Loss of early development skills
• Convulsions
• Seizures

See full list of 41 symptoms of Steely hair disease (Menkes Disease)

Treatments for Steely hair disease (Menkes Disease)

Treatments for Steely hair disease (Menkes Disease) include:

• Intravenous copper
• Oral copper supplements
• Symptomatic and supportive
• Copper - possibly used for related copper deficiency

Read more about treatments for Steely hair disease

Treatment of Steely hair disease: For more treatment information about Steely hair disease, see treatment of Menkes Disease (Steely hair disease)

Steely hair disease: Article Excerpts about Menkes Disease

Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology (Excerpt)

Menkes syndrome is an inborn error of metabolism that markedly decreases the cells' ability to absorb copper. (Source: Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology)

NINDS Menkes Disease Information Page: NINDS (Excerpt)

Menkes disease is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder of copper metabolism. It is... (Source: excerpt from NINDS Menkes Disease Information Page: NINDS)

Steely hair disease: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Steely hair disease:

• Kinky hair disease
• x linked recessive disease
• copper levels
• developmental delay
• seizures
• failure to thrive
• subnormal body temperature

Terms associated with Steely hair disease:

Terms Similar to Steely hair disease:

• Copper transport disease
• Kinky hair disease
• MK
• MNK
• Menkea syndrome
• Menkes syndrome

Source - NIH

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