A case of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia with an atypical phenotype and delayed clinical symptoms.

J Clin Lipidol

Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation, Pekarska 53, 656 91 Brno, Czechia; Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czechia. Electronic address:

Published: December 2021

We describe the casuistry of a homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia female patient with a biallelic missense variant (NM_000527.4:c.1775G>A, p.Gly592Glu) in the LDLR gene, severe hypertriglyceridemia and late manifestation of coronary heart disease not earlier than at the age of 45 years. An atypical phenotype led to a delayed diagnosis.

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