| Literature DB >> 6145836 |
T E Starzl, D W Bilheimer, H T Bahnson, B W Shaw, R L Hardesty, B P Griffith, S Iwatsuki, B J Zitelli, J C Gartner, J J Malatack.
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.Entities:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6145836 PMCID: PMC2976537 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(84)91876-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lancet ISSN: 0140-6736 Impact factor: 79.321