Follow-up of a patient with chronic hepatitis C-associated cryoglobulinemia during four and a half years of maintenance interferon treatment


Celik A., Ozaras R., Ozbay G.

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY, cilt.33, sa.4, ss.327-329, 2001 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

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In this report, we present a patient with chronic hepatitis C-associated cryoglobulinemia who was kept on maintenance interferon treatment because of flare-ups in cryoglobulinemia-associated signs and hepatitis after withdrawal, dose reduction, and increase in dose intervals of interferon. This type of interferon use for treatment of cryoglobulinemia gave us a chance to observe the long-term effects of interferon on cryoglobulinemia and chronic hepatitis C remission for biochemical, virologic, and histologic aspects.