Viraemia, cryoglobulins and autoantibodies in haemodialysis patients infected with hepatitis C virus

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-137

  Siagris, Dimitrios ^a,b   Labropoulou Karatza, Chryssoula ^a   Christofidou, Myrto ^a   Goumenos, Dimitrios ^a   Thomopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Lekkou, Alexandra ^a   Gogos, Charalambos A ^a   Vlachojannis, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; Cryoglobulins; Haemodialysis; Hepatitis C virus; Viral load

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; CRYOGLOBULIN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; COMPLEMENT C4; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL LOAD; VIREMIA;

EID: 0037331888     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042737-200302000-00005     Document Type: Article

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