Successful treatment of a patient with mitochondrial myopathy with alirocumab.


Journal

Journal of clinical lipidology
ISSN: 1933-2874
Titre abrégé: J Clin Lipidol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101300157

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Historique:
received: 25 02 2020
revised: 26 05 2020
accepted: 19 07 2020
pubmed: 18 8 2020
medline: 18 9 2021
entrez: 18 8 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

A 48-year-old man presented to our lipid clinic with statin intolerance and elevated serum creatine kinase levels, being affected by mitochondrial myopathy because of heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA missense mutation in MTCO1 gene (m.7671T>A). He had just been treated with a coronary artery bypass 4 years before because of acute coronary syndrome, and he had consistently high levels of both low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides. Dyslipidemia was successfully treated using 75 mg of alirocumab subcutaneously every 2 weeks, 10 mg of ezetimibe daily, 2 g of marine omega-3 fatty acids daily, and 145 mg of micronized fenofibrate every 2 days. Although muscle weakness persisted, myalgia did not reoccur and serum creatine kinase levels remained almost stable over the time.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32800583
pii: S1933-2874(20)30217-8
doi: 10.1016/j.jacl.2020.07.007
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized 0
Electron Transport Complex IV EC 1.9.3.1
cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, human EC 1.9.3.1
alirocumab PP0SHH6V16

Types de publication

Case Reports Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

646-648

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 National Lipid Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Arrigo F G Cicero (AFG)

Medical and Surgical Sciences Department, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. Electronic address: arrigo.cicero@unibo.it.

Federica Fogacci (F)

Medical and Surgical Sciences Department, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Marilisa Bove (M)

Medical and Surgical Sciences Department, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Claudio Borghi (C)

Medical and Surgical Sciences Department, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

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