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  • Title: [LDL-apheresis in the treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia].
    Author: Scarpato N, Postiglione A.
    Journal: Ric Clin Lab; 1985; 15 Suppl 1():499-504. PubMed ID: 4035229.
    Abstract:
    Several non-pharmacological treatments have been tested for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia and, among these, plasma-exchange has been the most safe and effective. A recent development of this procedure is LDL-apheresis, that is the selective removal of atherogenic LDL and the return to the patient of his own LDL-depleted plasma. The method is based on the flowing of hypercholesterolemic plasma on sepharose columns with bound anti-LDL antibodies.
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