Mixed cryoglobulinemia due to chronic hepatitis C with severe pulmonary involvement

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1210-1214

  Suzuki, Ryuji ^a   Morita, Hiroyuki ^a   Komukai, Daisuke ^a   Hasegawa, Takeshi ^a   Nakao, Naoyuki ^a   Ideura, Terukuni ^a   Yoshimura, Ashio ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury (ALI); Cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis; Hepatitis C virus infection; Lung disease

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CORTICOSTEROID; CRYOGLOBULIN; FUROSEMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LUNG INJURY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PURPURA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 1642422300     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.1210     Document Type: Article

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