What Is Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia? You've probably heard that you need to watch your cholesterol to keep heart disease away. That's also true of heterozygous familial ...
Homozygous deficiency of alpha 1-atitrypsin is known to predispose to pulmonary emphysema. Measurement of the trypsin inhibitory capacity (TIC) of serum specimens from 28 relatives of a homozygous ...
Eliot Brinton, MD, opens a discussion surrounding the treatment landscape for patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). Eliot Brinton, MD: I’m Dr Elliot Brinton. I’m the president ...
Evolocumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody directed against proprotein convertase subtilisin–kexin type 9, is widely used in adult patients to lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels ...
Hemochromatosis is a condition in which too much iron builds up in the body. If a person inherits the condition, it can be heterozygous or homozygous, depending on how many copies of the gene they ...