Abstract:Up to 3% of people in the world are infected with HCV, and 75-80% of them have chronic currency of infection. In the clinical picture of HCV infection, a significant place is given to extrahepatic manifestations -more than half of patients suffer from lesions of the skin, kidneys, heart, blood vessels, autoimmune and lymphoproliferative syndromes associated with HCV. Usually, mortality from chronic hepatitis C is associated with liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, but in fact, more patients die from … Show more
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