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Successful pregnancy outcome in a patient with severe chylomicronemia due to compound heterozygosity for mutant lipoprotein lipase.
Clinical biochemistry - 1 Mar 2002
Al-Shali Khalid, Wang Jian, Fellows Fraser, Huff Murray W, Wolfe Bernard M, Hegele Robert A
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OBJECTIVES: Familial chylomicronemia syndrome is characterized by massive accumulation of plasma chylomicrons, which typically results from an absolute deficiency of lipoprotein lipase (LPL). Chylomicronemia in pregnancy is a rare, but serious clinical problem and can be found in patients with underlying molecular defects in the LPL gene. We report the course and treatment of an 18 yr-old primigravida who had LPL...
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