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Case Report

Volume 8, Number 3, June 2017, pages 117-122

Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia With APOE Haplotype: A Prospective Harbinger of a Catastrophic Cardiovascular Event

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1. Pedigree of the patient depicting his grandfather and uncle who possibly have FH in the setting of heart attack in their 40s requiring CABG, his mother with recently diagnosed heterozygous FH, and a cousin who had a sudden cardiac death at age 29.
Figure 2.
Figure 2. Electrocardiogram showing sinus rhythm with no signs of ischemia (left panel) while chest radiograph (right panel) revealing prominent heart with no acute cardiopulmonary process.
Figure 3.
Figure 3. Coronary angiogram revealing three-vessel coronary artery disease affecting the right coronary artery, left anterior descending artery, and circumflex artery.
Figure 4.
Figure 4. Ultrasound showing the left common carotid intima-media thickness (left panel) and right common carotid intima-media thickness (right panel).
Figure 5.
Figure 5. Ultrasound showing the left achilles tendon thickness (left panel) and right achilles tendon thickness (right panel).