A case report: familial hypoalphalipoproteinemia.

We studied an 8 year-old girl whose height was 129 cm (25-50th percentile), weight 30 kg (75th percentile), blood pressure 115/75 mm Hg (75th percentile) and had a calcified mass lesion in the left posterior mediastinum. In the histopathological investigation of this mass lesion, symptoms of complicated atherosclerosis, such as mural thrombus and diffused calcification, were observed. Lipid investigations were performed in this patient whose total cholesterol and triglyceride levels were in the normal ranges.