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Familial Hypercholesterolemia presenting with Acute Coronary Syndrome (NSTEMI)
2024-05-31
Abstract excerpt
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is the most common metabolic disorder and is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. FH presents with xanthomas and early coronary artery disease, owing to relatively high levels of low-density lipid-cholesterol (LDL-C) compared to hypercholesterolemia without a genetic predisposition. The first clinical manifestation of this condition could be an acute coronary syndrome in u...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2329bac4-8ce4-5a86-9d84-eb4cf2262a88
- DOI
- 10.22541/au.171717662.27987386/v1
