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Exogenous glycerol intake can also trigger this condition. However, the causes of pseudo-HTG are poorly understood, and a clinical algorithm for its diagnosing remains to be developed. Case presentation: We present the case of a 46-year-old man admitted to hospital with hypertriglyceridemia-induced severe acute pancreatitis (HTG-SAP) and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Upon admission, his plasma triglyceride (TG) level was critically high at 43.78 mmol\/L (3877 mg\/dL). During hospitalization, he developed acute renal insufficiency and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Despite conventional lipid-lowering treatments, including extracorporeal lipoprotein apheresis, his TG levels remained elevated. The unusually clear serum led to suspicion of pseudo-HTG. A glycerol-corrected TG assay confirmed normal TG values, thereby diagnosing pseudo-HTG. Conclusions: This report presents the first confirmed case of pseudo-HTG verified through definitive glycerol kinase (GK) gene testing in a patient without glycerol kinase deficiency. We also include a review of the relevant literature and propose a clinical algorithm. The case report highlights the importance of considering pseudo-HTG in hypertriglyceridemia patients who do not respond well to the standard TG-lowering treatment. Our proposed clinical algorithm for diagnosing pseudo-HTG is potentially invaluable in clinical practice, and helps to prevent unnecessary lipid-lowering treatments for patients with pseudo-HTG.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diseases13020029","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,23]],"date-time":"2025-01-23T09:01:13Z","timestamp":1737622873000},"page":"29","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Pseudohypertriglyceridemia in a Patient with Pancreatitis Without Evidence for Glycerol Kinase Deficiency: A Rare Case Report and Review of the Literature"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Jianping","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacy, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310016, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0766-3256","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chunjuan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacy, Haiyan People\u2019s Hospital, Jiaxing 314399, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6929-6773","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rui","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacy, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310016, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"625","DOI":"10.2217\/clp.14.52","article-title":"Identifying pseudohypertriglyceridemia in clinical practice","volume":"9","author":"Backes","year":"2014","journal-title":"Clin. 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