Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on May 5, 2006
Rheumatology 2006 45(6):783-784; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kel134
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Treatment for glomerulonephritis in HCV-associated mixed cryoglobulinaemiaanti-viral therapy vs rituximab
1 The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore-LIJHS, 350 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA, 2 Division of Renal Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital/Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, S-141 86 Stockholm, Sweden and 3 Department of Internal Medicine and CNRS UMR 7087, Hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, 83, Boulevard de lHôpital, 75651 Cedex 13 Paris, France
Correspondence to: A. Bruchfeld. E-mail: Amette.Bruchfeld@ki.se
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SIR, Quartuccio et al. [1] reported a case series of five patients with HCV-associated mixed cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis. Two of the patients had previously received pegylated interferon, but none had been treated with ribavirin. Another two patients were reported to have milder chronic hepatitis upon liver biopsy and were infected with genotype 2a/2c, both