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.
Kanda
Tatsuo
T
First Department of Medicine, Chiba University School of Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba-City, Chiba 260-8670, Japan.
Yokosuka
Osamu
O
Kojima
Hiroshige
H
Imazeki
Fumio
F
Nagao
Keiich
K
Tatsuno
Ichiro
I
Saito
Yasushi
Y
Saisho
Hiromitsu
H
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