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The size of the cholesterol pool in xanthomata in one patient was estimated to be approximately 35 g, and from the plasma cholesterol response to plasmaphoresis at varying frequency it was suggested that the excess of cholesterol synthesis over degradation was less than 0\u00b73 g\/day in one patient and less than 0\u00b74 g\/day in the other. On the basis of the response in these patients it is suggested that the turnover rates of lipid pools are relatively slow in biliary cirrhosis and that cholesterol accumulation is more likely to be due to a reduced catabolic rate than to an increased synthetic rate of cholesterol. 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