Abstract
Kidney involvement in Essential Mixed Cryoglobulinemia (EMC) varies from 8 to 58% in the large series of patients [1–3] and is often regarded as an ominous prognostic sign [4]. We report here the outcome of 116 patients with EMC nephritis.
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Tarantino, A. et al. (1986). Prognostic factors in essential mixed cryoglobulinemia nephropathy. In: Ponticelli, C., Minetti, L., D’Amico, G. (eds) Antiglobulins, cryoglobulins and glomerulonephritis. Developments in Nephrology, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4289-9_20
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