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Mixed cryoglobulinemia and hepatitis C virus
1Lahey Hitchcock Clinic, Burlington, Mass.
Hospital Practice (Office Ed.)
|March 15, 1995
Abstract:
HCV appears to cause chiefly an asymptomatic chronic infection, which is nonetheless linked to a heightened prevalence of "essential" mixed cryoglobulinemia. The monoclonal rheumatoid factor occurring in the disease may result from chronic stimulation of the immune system, perhaps by the virus directly.