Case of multiple systemic (extrahepatic) manifestations of chronic HCV infection (analysis of the literature and own observations). Case report

Abstract

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.