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J V Ortíz

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PubMed2007

Sitosterol xanthomatosis.

BACKGROUND: Sitosterolaemia is a lipid disorder in which plasma plant sterol levels are extremely elevated. Sitosterolaemia is clinically characterized by tuberous and tendon xanthomas, premature vascular disease and arthritis. OBJECTIVE: To report a case of sitosterolaemia diagnosed by cutaneous manifestations and to review this rare disease. METHODS: We report the case of a 60-year-old woman who presented with cutaneous xanthomas, arterial hypertension and polyarthralgias. The patient had had hypercholesterolaemia for many years without reduction of serum cholesterol, despite treatment with fenofibrate. RESULTS: Ezetimibe therapy was started, decreasing sitosterol plasmatic levels and tuberous xanthomas after 3 months of treatment. CONCLUSION: It is important to detect levels of sitosterol in plasma in patients with premature vascular disease, presence of xanthomas, and uncontrolled hypercholesterolaemia. Ezetimibe therapy is effective.

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PubMed2003

Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and G-protein beta-3 subunit gene polymorphisms in salt-sensitive essential hypertension.

Approximately 50% of hypertensive patients are salt sensitive (they increase their Blood Pressure in response to sodium intake or volume expansion). Mechanisms underlying salt sensitivity are not completely elucidated although there is evidence that they may be genetically determined. The aim of this study is to establish the relation among some genetic polymorphisms of the renin-angiotensin system (RAAS) and the beta-3 subunit of the protein G and salt sensitivity. We studied 102 essential hypertensive patients, stage 1-2 and without target organ damage. Salt sensitivity was assessed by the rapid protocol of Weinberger. We determined by polymerase Chain reaction techniques the following polymorphisms: insertion/deletion (I/D) of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), A1166C of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1R), -344C/T and intron 2 conversion (IC) of the aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2), and C825T of the beta-3 subunit of the protein G (GNB3). 41 patients (40.19%) were salt sensitive. The distribution of the different polymorphisms was similar in both groups of patients, but subjects carriers of the W allele of the CYP11B2 IC polymorphism had a greater risk for salt sensitivity as compared with no carriers (37 of 41, 90.2% vs 4 of 41, 9.8%, OR 3.02, P<0.05). Although there is no association between salt sensitivity and the different studied genotypes of the RAAS and of the GNB3, our data show a greater risk for salt sensitivity among carriers of the W allele of the CYP11B2 1C polymorphism.

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