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Genetic and biochemical analyses in dyslipidemic patients undergoing LDL apheresis.
Journal of clinical apheresis - 1 Oct 2014
Donato Leslie J, Saenger Amy K, Train Laura J, Kotzer Katrina E, Lagerstedt Susan A, Hornseth Jean M, Basu Ananda, Winters Jeffrey L, Baudhuin Linnea M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) can be due to mutations in LDLR, PCSK9, and APOB. In phenotypically defined patients, a subset remains unresponsive to lipid-lowering therapies and requires low density-lipoprotein (LDL) apheresis treatment. In this pilot study, we examined the genoty...
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