Extreme hypercholesterolemia presenting with pseudohyponatremia - A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Clinical Lipidology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 260-264

  Hussain, Iram ^a   Ahmad, Zahid ^a   Garg, Abhimanyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholestasis; Hypercholesterolemia; Hyponatremia; Lipoprotein X (LpX); Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC); Pseudohypokalemia; Pseudohyponatremia

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; BILE ACID; BILIRUBIN; CHLORIDE; CHOLESTEROL; LIPOPROTEIN X; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; LIPOPROTEIN-X CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTASIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOHYPONATREMIA; SERUM OSMOLALITY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; CHOLESTASIS; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; LIPOPROTEIN-X; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY;

EID: 84928823223     PISSN: 19332874     EISSN: 18764789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacl.2014.11.007     Document Type: Article

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