Study Of Cryoglobulinemia In Chronic Hepatitis C Patients

Chronic HCV infection is the main cause (90%) of EMC type II and III with or without clinical or biochemical evidence of liver damage. Anti HCV antibodies, HCV proteins and HCV-RNA have, been found in the cryoprecipitate in concentrated form. Several HCV genotypes are involved in the pathogenesis of the disease. Cryoglobulinemia is quite frequent in chronic HCV infection and when appropriate techniques of cryoglobulin detection are applied. Its frequency is usually higher than 40% are more frequently females, cirrhosis and have a longer duration of HCV infection. Only a minority (approximately 10%) is associated with MC disease. HCV as a lymphotropic virus may play a direct role in the development of low grade non Hodgkin's lymphoma usually associated with EMC.

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MBBCh from Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine in 2003; Master degree of Tropical Medicine in 2008; Tutor of Tropical Medicine from 24/05/2009 to 10/12/2011; Assistant lecturer of Tropical Medicine from 11/12/2011 to 30/10/2016; MD of Tropical Medicine Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University in 2016, currently Lecturer of Tropical Medicine.