Treatment of the arthropathy of familial hypercholesterolaemia.
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Treatment of the arthropathy of familial hypercholesterolaemia.
A 29-year-old woman suffering from the arthropathy of familial hypercholesterolaemia was treated with a fat-modified low-cholesterol diet and colestipol. Symptomatic improvement occurred in association with a moderate reduction in the plasma cholesterol concentration. The pathogenesis of the musculoskeletal features of this disease is reviewed, and the implications of this patient's therapeutic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.42.2.206