Article
Mixed cryoglobulinemia type II in chronic hepatitis B associated with HBe-minus HBV mutant: cellular immune reactions and response to interferon treatment.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Dec 1994
Löhr H, Goergen B, Weber W, Gödderz W, Meyer zum Büschenfelde K H, Gerken G
Abstract excerpt
The case of a young female patient with chronic active hepatitis B, vasculitic purpura, edema, and circulating immune complexes due to mixed cryoglobulinemia is described. Serum transaminases were elevated. Serological assays showed hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), antibody to hepatitis B e a...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Cryoglobulinemia
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B e Antigens
- Hepatitis B virus
- Hepatitis, Chronic
- Humans
- Immunity, Cellular
- Interferon-alpha
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear
- Mutation
- T-Lymphocytes