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. 2023 Mar 4;24(5):4970. doi: 10.3390/ijms24054970

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Ongoing therapeutic uses and future investigations of deferiprone (L1) in medicine. Deferiprone (L1) is widely used in the treatment of iron overload worldwide and also other conditions where the present treatments appear to be ineffective. The wide range of therapeutic application prospects is related to its safety profile and also the access and distribution in almost all organs at therapeutic concentrations. PKAN: pantothenate-kinase-associated neurodegeneration; NBIA: neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation.