Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and leukocytoclastic vasculitis without cryoglobulin in chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1042-1046

  Nakajima, Ayako ^a,b   Adachi, Masayuki ^a   Tanaka, Michi ^a   Suwa, Akira ^a   Yasuki, Yoshihiro ^a   Imaeda, Hiroyuki ^a   Inada, Shinichi ^a  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Ohtsuka Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus; Extrahepatic manifestations; Immune complex disease; Interferon ; Opportunistic infection

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALPHA INTERFERON; AMLODIPINE BESYLATE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; CRYOGLOBULIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PREDNISOLONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPLEMENT BLOOD LEVEL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DEBRIDEMENT; FATALITY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEPOSITION; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MYCOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR LESION; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0242690508     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.1042     Document Type: Article

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