Successful treatment of necrotizing vasculitic lesions after infusion of iloprost in a patient with cryoglobulinemia and chronic HCV infection [2]

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 912-913

  Lo Gullo, R ^a   De Filippis, Luigi ^a   Caliri, A ^a   Bagnato, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA INTERFERON; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; ILOPROST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; STEROID; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTHRALGIA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASTHENIA; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; LETTER; MALE; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; PAPULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SKIN DEFECT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; ILOPROST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; VASCULITIS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 29944436117     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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