Real-world study: Escalating targeted lipid-lowering treatment with PCSK9-inhibitors and lipoprotein apheresis.
Ralf SpitthöverTilmann RöselerUlrich JuliusFranz HeiglVolker J J SchettlerRalf KühnJosef LeebmannAndrea RaabeMarkus KnittelCarsten SchürfeldMichael MoesenthinWanja M BernhardtEberhard RöselerMarkus KettelerAndreas HeibgesReinhard KlingelPublished in: Journal of clinical apheresis (2019)
Finally, 55.5% of patients received a combination of PCSK9 antibody therapy and LA at individually optimized treatment frequencies resulting in an increase of target attainment in 54.1% of patients. About 18.1% of chronic LA patients terminated LA treatment in this real-world study. The termination of long-term LA therapy, which has hitherto prevented the progression of ASCVD, requires careful individual risk assessment and cannot be recommended by the general criteria of LDL-C reduction.