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Recurrent acute and chronic pancreatitis in two brothers with familial chylomicronemia syndrome.
Pancreas - 1 Mar 2006
Truninger Kaspar, Schmid Peter A, Hoffmann Michael M, Bertschinger Philipp, Ammann Rudolf W
Abstract excerpt
The chylomicronemia syndrome is well recognized as a rare etiologic factor of acute pancreatitis; however, whether hypertriglyceridemia can cause chronic pancreatitis (CP) remains unclear. We describe the long-time course of 2 brothers with the familial chylomicronemia syndrome caused by identical compound heterozygous mutations in the lipoprotein lipase (LPL) gene with markedly reduced LPL activity. Other...
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