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Severe hypertriglyceridaemia in diabetic ketoacidosis: clinical and genetic study.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Apr 2004
Karagianni C, Stabouli S, Roumeliotou K, Traeger-Synodinos J, Kavazarakis E, Gourgiotis D, Lambrou J, Kanavakis E
Abstract excerpt
The lipoprotein lipase coding gene sequence was analysed on a 10-year-old girl with new-onset Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM), ketoacidosis and severe hypertriglyceridaemia (TG > 112.9 mmol/l), revealing that the patient was a compound heterozygote for two mutations, D9N in exon 2 and S447X in exon 9. Although these two mutations usually do not considerably impair lipolytic enzyme activity, the combination of both...
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