Emergency in cryoglobulinemic syndrome: what to do?

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Monti, G ^a   Saccardo, F ^a  

^a Ospedale di Saronno   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cryoglobulinemic syndrome; Emergency; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; AMANTADINE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA INTERFERON; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERFERON; PENTOXIFYLLINE; RIBAVIRIN; RITUXIMAB; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JEJUNUM DISEASE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG DISEASE; MALIGNANT HYPERTENSION; NEUROPATHY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PURPURA; SEPSIS; SKIN ULCER; VASCULITIS;

CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME;

EID: 34948836729     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1590-8658(07)80022-3     Document Type: Article

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