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An interesting case of familial chylomicronemia syndrome in a cleft palate child
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Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery
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January 1, 2008
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Introduction
Familial chylomicronemia usually manifests in childhood at around ten years of age with recurrent abdominal pain and pancreatitis. This disorder is usually clinically silent and hence not discovered till blood is sampled for some other reason. During sampling, massive elevation of triglycerides (1,000 mg/dl->10,000 mg/dl) is noted. In our asymptomatic case, the diagnosis was made during surgery.
Case History
A fifteen month-old male child who had undergone cleft lip repair at five months of age and in whom nothing abnormal was found at that stage, was later taken up for cleft palate repair. Peroperatively at the incision sites, the blood was found to be milky [Figure 1]. ...