Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 20, Issue 10 , Pages 761-762, December 2010

The 2009 2nd Italian Consensus Conference on LDL-apheresis

Department of Clinical and Medical Therapy, Plasmapheresis Unit, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, ‘Umberto I’ Hospital, 155,Viale del Policlinico I-00161, Rome, Italy

Received 14 April 2010; accepted 29 April 2010. published online 16 August 2010.

Abstract 

The ‘2009 2nd Italian Consensus Conference on LDL-apheresis’ was held in Rome, Italy, 15 May 2009. The latest scientific evidence and the information processed in more than two decades of LDL-apheresis application require new guidelines. Experts were invited by the Consensus Panel to give a scientific specific contribution in their clinical area of specialty. The experts of interdisciplinary affiliation participated in the extension of ‘The new guidelines and recommendations for the indications and the appropriate use of LDL-apheresis’. The summary statement describing the frame and the lines of action of the scientific event and a supplementary document inherent to the Consensus available online at http://ees.elsevier.com/nmcd/ are reported.

Keywords: LDL-apheresis, Lipid apheresis, Consensus conference

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PII: S0939-4753(10)00105-5

doi:10.1016/j.numecd.2010.04.007

Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 20, Issue 10 , Pages 761-762, December 2010

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