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Cryoglobulinemia - Articles
hepatitis C & cryoglobulinemia
by
Matt S.
Posted
Tue 13 Jan 2009 12:00am
Prior to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus (viral particles shown on the left), there was an entity termed "essential cryoglobulinemia"--that is, cryoglobulinemia without an obvious explanation. While this term is still used, the true "essential cryoglobulinemia" is pretty rare, some cases of "hepatitis C-negative" cryoglobulinemia turned
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Treatment of Hepatitis C-Induced Cryoglobulinemia
by
Matt S.
Posted
Fri 16 Jan 2009 12:00am
The treatment of hepatitis C-induced cryoglobulinemia can be broken down into two different arms, both of which are usually necessary:
1. Antiviral Therapy, to get at the root-cause of the problem.
2. Immunosuppression Therapy, to prevent the acute inflammation which is causing clinical symptoms, and often glomerulonephritis
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Classification of Cryoglobulins and MPGN
by
Matt S.
Posted
Tue 10 Nov 2009 12:00am
Cryoglobulinemia is characterized by the presence of circulating antibodies which precipitate at cooler temperatures, and not infrequently leads to renal failure/glomerulonephritis. The stereotypical histologic lesion of cryoglobulinemia is membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, which takes the appearance on light microscopy of this heavily
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Hepatitis B Virus & Renal Disease
by
Matt S.
Posted
Sun 22 Jun 2008 12:00am
Hepatitis B--a disease which in the U.S. is on the decline due to regular childhood vaccinations--has a variety of interesting associations with renal disease.
There are three distinct glomerular diseases with which the hepatitis B virus is associated. Hepatitis B can cause secondary membranous nephropathy, as well as MPGN (from cryoglobulinemia
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Renal Disease in Sjogren's Syndrome
by
Matt S.
Posted
Thu 17 Sep 2009 12:00am
and nephrolithiasis. Other lesions included cryoglobulinemia (often with an MPGN pattern on biopsy), FSGS, and other GN's.
Nearly all the patients in this series were treated
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