Registrar Dr Riona Singh-Gansen

Together with fellow researchers in the Division, a recent letter to the editor in the JALM highlighted an atypical presentation of Lipoprotein X (LpX) on agarose gel electrophoresis in a cholestatic patient with severe hypercholesterolemia. This case underscores the diagnostic value of non-denaturing polyacrylamide gradient gel electrophoresis in identifying LpX and the pitfalls of LDL cholesterol estimation in such settings.

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