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Treatment of mononeuropathy multiplex in hepatitis C virus and cryoglobulinemia
S N Scelsa1, S Herskovitz, B Reichler
1Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York 10003, USA.
Muscle & Nerve
|October 15, 1998
Abstract:
Recent reports advocate alpha-interferon (alpha-Ifn) treatment for mononeuropathy multiplex in hepatitis C virus-associated cryoglobulinemia. We report 2 patients with this disorder to describe two underrecognized treatment outcomes--worsening of polyneuropathy with initiation of alpha-Ifn, in the absence of immunosuppression, and deterioration of liver function with prednisone, despite improvement of polyneuropathy.