Loreta A Kondili, Monica Monti, Maria Giovanna Quaranta, Laura Gragnani, Valentina Panetta, Giuseppina Brancaccio, Cesare Mazzaro, Marcello Persico, Mario Masarone, Ivan Gentile, Pietro Andreone, Salvatore Madonia, Elisa Biliotti, Roberto Filomia, Massimo Puoti, Anna Ludovica Fracanzani, Diletta Laccabue, Donatella Ieluzzi, Carmine Coppola, Maria Grazia Rumi, Antonio Benedetti, Gabriella Verucchi, Barbara Coco, Liliana Chemello, Andrea Iannone, Alessia Ciancio, Francesco Paolo Russo, Francesco Barbaro, Filomena Morisco, Luchino Chessa, Marco Massari, Pierluigi Blanc, Anna Linda Zignego
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Mixed cryoglobulinemia (MC) is the most common Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) extrahepatic manifestation. We aimed to prospectively evaluate the Cryoglobulinemic Vasculitis (CV) clinical profile after a sustained virologic response (SVR) over a medium-long term period. APPROACH: Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) treated cryoglobulinemic patients, consecutively enrolled in the multicentric PITER cohort, were prospectively evaluated. Cumulative incidence, Kaplan Meier curves were reported for response, clinical deterioration or relapse and survival free rates...
December 16, 2021: Hepatology: Official Journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases