Rare op at PGI cures 5-yr-old’s rare disorder of brain | Lucknow News
Lucknow: Doctors at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) have successfully treated a five-year-old boy suffering from X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD), a rare inherited disorder that affects around one in 21,000 people and damages the brain and nervous system. The treatment was carried out under the National Programme for Rare Diseases.The child underwent a…