Treatment of mixed cryoglobulinemia with recombinant interferon alpha and adjuvant therapies: A prospective study on 20 patients;Traitement des cryoglobulinemies mixtes par l'interferon alpha et therapeutiques adjuvantes. Etude prospective chez 20 patients

Annales de Medecine Interne

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 81-86

  Cohen, Pascal ^a   Nguyen, Quang Tri ^a   Dény, Paul ^a   Ferrière, Françoise ^a   Roulot, Dominique ^a   Lortholary, Olivier ^a   Jarrousse, Bernard ^b   Danon, Françoise ^a   Barrier, Jacques Henry ^c   Ceccaldi, Joël ^d   Constans, Joël ^a   Fiessinger, Jean Noël ^f   Hachulla, Eric ^g   Jaccard, Arnaud ^e   Seligmann, Maxime ^f   Kazatchkine, Michel ^g   Laroche, Liliane ^h   Subra, Jean François ^h   Turlure, Pascal ⁱ   Guillevin, Loïc ^a,j  

^a Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (France)

^b Laboratoire de Microbiologie   (France)

^c HÔPITAL BROUSSAIS   (France)

^d LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^f BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^g HÔPITAL SAINT ANDRÉ   (France)

^h ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

ⁱ BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

^j UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

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Author keywords

Cryoglobulinemia; Hepatitis C virus; Interferon alpha

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; RECOMBINANT ALPHA INTERFERON; VIRUS RNA;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PLASMAPHERESIS; RELAPSE; REMISSION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; INTERFERON TYPE I, RECOMBINANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE;

EID: 9544229685     PISSN: 0003410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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