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Case Reports
. 1984 Jun 23;1(8391):1382-3.
doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(84)91876-2.

Heart-liver transplantation in a patient with familial hypercholesterolaemia

T E Starzl, D W Bilheimer, H T Bahnson, B W Shaw Jr, R L Hardesty, B P Griffith, S Iwatsuki, B J Zitelli, J C Gartner Jr, J J Malatack, et al.
Case Reports

Heart-liver transplantation in a patient with familial hypercholesterolaemia

T E Starzl et al. Lancet. .

Abstract

A girl aged 6 years 9 months with severe heart disease secondary to homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia underwent orthotopic cardiac transplantation and her liver was replaced with the liver of the same donor. In the first 10 weeks after transplantation serum cholesterol fell to 270 mg/dl from preoperative concentrations of more than 1000 mg/dl.

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Plasma or serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels before and after liver-heart transplantation.
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