Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Observational
Official Title: A Clinical Records Review Study of the Frequency and Severity of Acute Abdominal "Pancreatitis" Episodes Reported From LPLD Subjects Previously Recruited to Clinical Studies PREPARATION-02,
Brief Summary:
Lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD) is an autosomal recessive inherited condition caused by homozygosity or compound heterozygosity for mutations within the LPL gene. LPLD results in subjects presenting with fasting plasma triglyceride (TG) levels of > 10 mmol/l. LPLD typically presents in infancy or childhood with usual complaints of severe abdominal pain, repetitive colicky pains and repeated episodes of acute pancreatitis The most severe clinical complication associated with LPLD is acute pancreatitis. Pancreatitis in an LPLD subject often leads to prolonged hospital admissions (sometimes up to weeks). Subjects who survive repeated episodes of acute pancreatitis may develop chronic pancreatitis, ultimately resulting in endocrine and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency.
The clinical manifestations of acute pancreatitis episodes related to LPLD are largely indistinguishable from acute pancreatitis due to other causes. However, collection of data relating to hospital admissions, laboratory test results, scan images and adverse events occurring concomitantly to the acute pancreatic episode should allow elimination of other causes of pancreatitis (e.g gallstones etc) and ultimately allow confirmation of LPLD-related acute pancreatitis. Characterization of the presentation of symptoms which occur around the time of known episodes of LPLD-related acute pancreatitis should also permit identification of episodes of acute pancreatitis which have previously been considered as unrelated or even unrecognized.
The objective of the study is to re-assess and re-confirm data previously recorded about the incidence and severity of acute abdominal "pancreatitis" episodes in LPLD subjects previously enrolled on AMT clinical studies. To assess and document the presentation of acute abdominal episodes that occur around known epis