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Extreme diabetic lipaemia associated with a novel lipoprotein lipase gene mutation.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 Aug 2009
McLean Anna G, Petersons Carolyn J, Hooper Amanda J, Burnett John R, Burt Morton G, Doogue Matthew P
Abstract excerpt
Diabetic lipaemia, severe hypertriglyceridaemia associated with diabetic ketoacidosis, is a well recognised, but rare condition. Why this occurs in some patients and not others is unknown. We report a case of extreme lipaemia in a 20-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes who presented to hospital with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). At admission the patient's blood was grossly lipaemic and plasma lipid analyses showed...
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