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To appreciate hyperlipidaemia as a contributing factor to reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), we have evaluated basal lipidic values (cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, apilipoproteins A1, B) and frequency of hypertriglyceriglyceridaemia (Turpin's diagnosis criteria) in 75 cases of RSD and in 75 paired controls. No difference exists in both groups with regard to frequency of hypertriglyceridaemia or basal lipidic values. These values seem independent of age, sex, duration of localization or etiology (traumatic or nontraumatic) of RSD. Hyperlipidaemia does not seem a contributing factor to RSD.
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Eulry, F., Chevalier, X., Crozes, P. et al. Is hyperlipidaemia a contributing factor to algodystrophy (reflex sympathetic dystrophy)?. Clin Rheumatol 11, 526–528 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02283112
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