A MEDICAL CASE (part two) and not only

Abstract

In the previous article (vol.12 nr 2/2005 of Romanian Journal of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseaseas), I presented a teenager known with a homozygous form of familial hypercholesterolemia. The medical and non-medical messages are still available, so, the up- to- date picture is made on this occasion.
Remember that in Italy, since December 2004, until now, after a cascade of investiga-tions, a functional treatment schedule, including one LDL-C apheresis session every week, in conjunction with lipid –lowering treatment have been put into practice offering the best results in that given case. Are we able to continue from Christian‘s return, this life-maintaining treatment?