A Case Report of Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome With Infantile Onset: One‐Year Follow‐Up on Lipid Profile and Growth Development
Jinyi Liu, Xuanyu Meng, Yi Wu, Guosheng Huang, Shuheng Liang · 2026
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Liu and colleagues report a 2026 case of familial chylomicronemia syndrome in an infant, a rare inherited disorder where the blood cannot clear dietary fat, leaving triglyceride levels dangerously high. The baby, a girl admitted at forty-one days old, was diagnosed by genetic testing that found two faulty copies of the lipoprotein lipase gene, the main fat-clearing enzyme.
Treatment centered on a strict low-fat diet supplemented with medium-chain triglycerides, fats that bypass the broken clearing pathway. Over one year of follow-up, her triglyceride levels improved markedly. She also showed catch-up growth, closing the gap toward normal infant size. The authors stress that early genetic diagnosis matters because diet started in infancy can control the disorder and help prevent its feared complication, repeated pancreas inflammation.
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| CREATOR | Jinyi Liu, Xuanyu Meng, Yi Wu, Guosheng Huang, Shuheng Liang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |