Pruritus as a symptom of hepatitis C.
Recent isolation, cloning, and sequencing of the hepatitis C genome, which has led to the development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, has produced increasing recognition of a hepatic disease that frequently leads to potentially lethal, chronic active hepatitis. We describe four patients who had pruritus or in whom pruritus developed as a consequence of hepatitis C. The symptom of pruritus should be added to a growing list of cutaneous manifestations of this newly recognized inflammatory viral hepatitis.
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University of California Medical Schools, San Francisco.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011537:Pruritus / Q000209:etiology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index