title: Fatal cardiac atherosclerosis in a child 10 years after liver transplantation: a case report and a review.
abstract: We hereby review liver transplantation for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia and report the case of a 14-year-old girl presenting with severe bilateral coronary ostial stenosis and tight supra-valvular aortic narrowing 10 years after liver transplantation. Despite normalization of the lipids after liver transplantation, the patient showed evidence of severe cardiac atherosclerosis 10 years later and died of apparent sepsis.
authors.affiliation: Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital, Boulevard Naccach, PO Box 166830, Beirut, Lebanon. issam.rassi@gmail.com
authors.forename: Issam
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: El-Rassi
authors.forename: Ghassan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chehab
authors.forename: Zakhia
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Saliba
authors.forename: Abdallah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alawe
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jebara
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D050197:Atherosclerosis / Q000150:complications*; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000150:complications*; D016572:Cyclosporine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006720:Homozygote; D006801:Humans; D006938:Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D011859:Radiography
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids; D016572:Cyclosporine