Long-term follow-up in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia; 13-year experience of a university hospital lipid clinic

Long-term follow-up in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia; 13-year experience of a university hospital lipid clinic

Objectives: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a genetic disease characterized by extremely high levels of cholesterol leading to premature atherosclerosis. In homozygous individuals (HoFH) cardiovascular events could develop in child-hood. In this article, long-term clinical experience with adu...

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Main Authors: Meral Kayıkçıoğlu, Erkan Kısmalı, Levent Can, Serdar Payzin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KARE Publishing 2014-10-01
Series:Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği Arşivi
Subjects:
familial hypercholesterolemia
apolipoprotein b-100/ genetics
genetic predisposition to disease
hyperlipoproteinemia type ii/epidemiology; coronary artery disease; xanthoma; lipid apheresis.
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