Symptomatic vasculitis affects approximately 5%-10% of patients with hepatitis C (HCV) infection, and prior to the introduction of antiviral therapies, such vasculitis led to significant morbidity ...

For people with hepatitis C, the rash is usually a symptom of leukocytoclastic vasculitis.A leukocytoclastic vasculitis can occur in conjunction with essential mixed cryoglobulinemia, presenting ...

Some of those triggers can include infections such as hepatitis B and hepatitis C, blood cancers and other immune system diseases such as lupus. Vasculitis conditions can occur across age groups.

Vasculitis can occur alone or in conjunction with other rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus or scleroderma. Having a hepatitis B or C infection can also be a trigger, as can ...

What our study showed was that during a chronic hepatitis C infection, antibodies on the virus surface form an antibody cluster that persistently stimulates the B cells to mutate," explains lead ...

Other health conditions that could trigger vasculitis include Hepatitis B or C and lymphoma. How is vasculitis treated? Treatment for vasculitis depends on the severity of the case, but the NIH ...

Some infections can lead to vasculitis, such as hepatitis B or hepatitis C. But for the majority of patients of vasculitis, we don’t know the cause. We’re doing a lot of research to try to ...

Secondary vasculitis can be related to infections (such as hepatitis C or HIV), drugs (propylthiouracil, hydralazine), drug abuse (levamisole-induced vasculitis), systemic autoimmune diseases ...

This was a longitudinal, observational study of 151 patients with HCV-related vasculitis evaluated between 1993 and 2009 in France. For enrollment, patients must have had chronic active hepatitis ...