Severe hypercholesterolemia associated with primary biliary cirrhosis in a 44-year-old Japanese woman.
A 44-year-old woman developed jaundice and was diagnosed as stage II of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). She showed a severely high total cholesterol level. This article focuses on atypical presentations of PBC and the need to test the total cholesterol level of PBC patients.
First Department of Medicine, Chiba University School of Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba-City, Chiba 260-8670, Japan.
Tatsuo
T
Kanda
Osamu
O
Yokosuka
Hiroshige
H
Kojima
Fumio
F
Imazeki
Keiich
K
Nagao
Ichiro
I
Tatsuno
Yasushi
Y
Saito
Hiromitsu
H
Saisho
D000328:Adult; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology*; D007564:Japan; D008105:Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
D002784:Cholesterol