Abstract
A 40-year-old Japanese man presented with child-onset hypertriglyceridemia recently complicated by diabetes mellitus. The patient’s diabetes mellitus was maintained, but he had persistent insulin resistance. The patient also had persistent severe hypertriglyceridemia (1,224-4,104 mg/dL), despite the administration of bezafibrate and ezetimibe. Type V dyslipidemia was revealed by agarose gel electrophoresis and the refrigerator test, and a significantly reduced post-heparin lipoprotein lipase mass of 26 ng/mL was confirmed. Genetic testing confirmed two heterozygous LPL variants, p.Tyr88X and p.Gly215Glu in trans; thus, the patient was diagnosed with lipoprotein lipase deficiency. Lipoprotein lipase deficiency typically arises in type I dyslipidemia, but is latent in type V dyslipidemia.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 251-257 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Internal Medicine |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Jan 2019 |
Keywords
- Chylomicronemia
- Lipoprotein lipase
- Triglycerides