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Richard J. Deckelbaum, MD; Claire Dupont, MD, PhD; Jacques LeTarte, MD; Paul Pencharz, MD, ChB, PhD

Am J Dis Child. 1983;137(4):396-398.

Abstract
• Five of six children with severe familial primary hypertriglyceridemia in the first three to five years of life had what we believe is a new clinical feature, intermittent swelling of the limbs and scrotum. This was associated with higher levels of plasma triglyceride (>2,000 mg/dL) and, in some instances, venous stasis of the affected part. All children had severe elevation of plasma chylomicron levels and mild elevation of very low-density lipoprotein levels. Four of the subjects were siblings who demonstrated heterogeneity in plasma lipase activities after heparin sodium administration. The clinical features and the lipase heterogeneities suggest that these patients possibly have an unusual variant of primary hypertriglyceridemia.

(Am J Dis Child 1983;137:396-398)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Pediatrics (Drs Deckelbaum and Pencharz) and Biochemistry (Dr Dupont), Montreal Children's Hospital; the Departments of Gastroenterology and Pediatrics (Dr Deckelbaum), Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem; and the Department of Endocrinology, Hôpital Ste-Justine, Montreal (Dr LeTarte). Dr Pencharz is now with The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, PO Box 12,000, Jerusalem, Israel (Dr Deckelbaum).

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