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Liver Transplantation for Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Pharmacological treatments to decrease low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (LDL-C) have limited effects on patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). Since LDL receptors are located mainly in the liver, liver transplantation is considered to be the only way to correct the h...

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Autores principales: Ishigaki, Yasushi, Kawagishi, Naoki, Hasegawa, Yutaka, Sawada, Shojiro, Katagiri, Hideki, Satomi, Susumu, Oikawa, Shinichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japan Atherosclerosis Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6365147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30555131
http://dx.doi.org/10.5551/jat.RV17029