Ramos-Casals Manuel, García-Carrasco Mario, Brito Zerón Maria Pilar, Cervera Ricard, Font Josep
Department of Autoimmune Diseases, C/Villaroel 170, Hospital Clínic, Institut Clínic d'Infeccions i Immunologia, 08036 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Autoimmun Rev. 2002 Aug;1(4):238-43. doi: 10.1016/s1568-9972(02)00057-5.
Patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) chronic infection present some extrahepatic manifestations that may mimic the clinical, immunologic and histological manifestations of primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS). Thus, HCV patients with sicca symptomatology and positive autoantibodies could be misdiagnosed as a 'primary' SS. Nevertheless, there are several clinical and immunologic features that could help us differentiate both processes.
