Causes and predictive factors of mortality in a cohort of patients with hepatitis C virus-related cryoglobulinemic vasculitis treated with antiviral therapy

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 615-621

  Landau, Dan Avi ^a   Scerra, Samy ^a   Sene, Damien ^a   Resche Rigon, Mathieu ^b   Saadoun, David ^a   Cacoub, Patrice ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C virus; Mixed cryoglobulinemia; Mortality; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; INTERFERON; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKIN ULCER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2A; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBAVIRIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASCULITIS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 77949696600     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.090790     Document Type: Article

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