The article presents a description of a patient with chronic HCV infection and multiple extrahepatic manifestations, which manifested in dynamics and were recorded with a different sequence during 15 years of follow-up. In the patient we observed, the most frequently recorded extrahepatic manifestations were verified: porphyria cutanea tarda, mixed cryoglobulenemia, and utoimmune thyroiditis. Chronic HCV infection is often diagnosed in the presence of psoriasis was assessed as a paraneoplastic disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe studied safety and clinical efficacy of transplantation of autologous bone marrow cell in complex therapy of 158 patients with chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver. The efficiency of cell therapy was assessed in 12 months after single injection of the cells. The positive response (alleviation of liver cirrhosis or stabilization of the pathological process) was observed in 70% cases.
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September 2006