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Systemic sclerosis: another rheumatic disease associated with hepatitis C virus infection
M Abu-Shakra1, S Sukenik, D Buskila
1Department of Medicine and Rheumatic Diseases Unit, Soroka Medical Centre and Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Clinical Rheumatology
|October 31, 2000
Abstract:
The first case of a patient with chronic infection with hepatitis C virus who developed systemic sclerosis, manifested by severe Raynaud's phenomenon, progressive skin thickening, painful fingertip ulcers, dysphagia and Sjogren's syndrome, is described. The role of interferon therapy is discussed.