Cassandra Calabrese, DO, shares her experiences
by Cassandra Calabrese, DO
April 07, 2018
I spent this past week seeing hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients with our hepatologists. Being a rheumatologist, I was looking forward to seeing extrahepatic manifestations of HCV that we read about in textbooks -- cryoglobulinemic vasculitis, sicca syndrome, porphyria cutanea tarda, and many others. I suppose I should not be surprised that the week passed without seeing a single one of these.
While a wide array of extrahepatic manifestations, including may rheumatologic ones, will occur in 40%-70% of chronic HCV patients, the advent of direct-acting antivirals (DAA) has changed HCV outcomes, such that I do not think we will be seeing these cases much longer...
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