Giant xanthomas associated with severe mixed dyslipidemia and arteriosclerotic vascular disease: A case report

J Clin Lipidol. 2015 May-Jun;9(3):406-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jacl.2015.01.003. Epub 2015 Jan 14.

Authors

Jean-Christophe Charniot¹, Randa Bittar², Éric Bruckert³, Dominique Bonnefont-Rousselot⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, La Pitié-Salpêtrière - Charles Foix University Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, France.
² Department of Metabolic Biochemistry, La Pitié-Salpêtrière - Charles Foix University Hospital (AP-HP), Paris, France; UPMC University Paris 06 UMR S 1166 ICAN, Paris, France.
³ UPMC University Paris 06 UMR S 1166 ICAN, Paris, France; Department of Endocrinology, La Pitié-Salpêtrière - Charles Foix University Hospital (AP-HP), Paris, France.
⁴ Department of Metabolic Biochemistry, La Pitié-Salpêtrière - Charles Foix University Hospital (AP-HP), Paris, France; UPMC University Paris 06 UMR S 1166 ICAN, Paris, France; Department of Biochemistry, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France. Electronic address: dominique.rousselot@psl.aphp.fr.

PMID: 26073402
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacl.2015.01.003

Abstract

The report describes a case of mixed hyperlipoproteinemia in a 64-year-old patient presenting a serum hypertriglyceridemia at 25 mmol/L and hypercholesterolemia at 15.75 mmol/L, giant xanthomas and symptomatic atherosclerotic disease.

Keywords: Atherosclerosis; Dyslipidemia; Heart failure; Xanthomas.

Copyright © 2015 National Lipid Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Atherosclerosis* / blood
Atherosclerosis* / complications
Atherosclerosis* / pathology
Dyslipidemias* / blood
Dyslipidemias* / complications
Dyslipidemias* / pathology
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Xanthomatosis* / blood
Xanthomatosis* / complications
Xanthomatosis* / pathology