title: [Clinical aspects of vasculitis and viral hepatitis].
abstract: The authors present the connection between the hepatitis type B and C with connective tissue diseases, mainly with vasculitis. They underline the role of immunological complexes deposited in the blood vessels as a main pathomechanism of vasculitis. They describe the etiopathogenic role of the viruses of hepatitis B and C in the vasculitis. The authors present also the problem of extrahepatic symptoms during the hepatitis B and C and the therapeutical difficulties with they patients.
authors.affiliation: Wojewódzka Przychodnia Reumatologiczna w Katowicach.
authors.forename: Iwona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Piwowarska
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ziółkowski
authors.forename: Karina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sitek-Ziółkowska
authors.forename: Danuta
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Krenczyk
authors.forename: Danuta
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jabłońska-Andrzejewska
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gabriel
mesh_terms: D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000150:complications*; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000821:virology*