Anti-Liver/Kidney Microsome-1-Positive Chronic Hepatitis C with Type I Cryoglobulinemia Responding to Interferon.
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Cryoglobulinemia in patients with hepatitis C
Introduction: Cryoglobulinemia is a kind of immunoglobuline that form in various conditions. These imunoglobulines, precipitate in cold environment and restore to soluble state upon rewarming. Nowadays, strong association between cryoglobulines and hepatitis C has been proposed. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytic study in which we included all documented cases of hepatitis C infection wh...
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1Department of Internal Medicine, Assistance Publique–Hopitaux de Paris, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris; 2Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unite Mixte de Recherche 7087, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpétrière Paris; 3Department of Biostatistics, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris; 4Department of Nephrology, Hôpital Européen George Pompi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.34.1114