Familial hypercholesterolaemia in twin brothers born using in-vitro fertilisation with donor semen and ovules
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Management of homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia in two brothers
Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HoFH) is a rare, genetic disorder of abnormally high levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) requiring aggressive interventions to retard the evolution of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. We treated two brothers (ages 46 years and 47 years) with HoFH with statins, lipoproteinapheresis (LA) and the microsomal triglyceride transfer p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anales de Pediatría (English Edition)
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2341-2879
DOI: 10.1016/j.anpede.2020.01.015