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ReviewCurrent opinion in lipidology2025

Liver transplantation for homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia.

Gilbert R Thompson, Shahenaz Walji, Jaimini Cegla

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Review in Current opinion in lipidology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Familial Hypercholesterolemia.Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Gilbert R ThompsonDivision of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Imperial College London.
Shahenaz WaljiLipids and cardiovascular risk service, Department of Cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
Jaimini CeglaDivision of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Imperial College London.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThe review focusses on the role of liver transplantation, and rarely combined liver and heart transplantation, in the current management of homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HoFH). RECENT

findingsThe review features world-wide reports published during the past 10 years describing the rationale and outcomes of liver transplantation for children and adults with HoFH. It also provides information on the scale of liver and heart transplantation for a variety of other disorders. SUMMARY: Liver transplantation provides a more effective means of lowering LDL than currently available alternatives such as apheresis and lomitapide but carries with it an unacceptably high risk of posttransplant morbidity and mortality. This is mainly due to the adverse effects of life-long immunosuppressive drug therapy, which restricts the use of liver transplantation to those HoFH patients in whom optimal medical therapy has failed.

Indexed as

HomozygoteHyperlipoproteinemia Type IILiver TransplantationHeart TransplantationHumanscardiovasculardrug therapyliver

Identifiers

PMID40767382
PMCPMC12594158

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