Evidence-based recommendations on the management of extrahepatic manifestations of chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Affiliations

• ¹ Laboratory of Autoimmune Diseases Josep Font, CELLEX-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Autoimmune Diseases, ICMiD, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: mramos@clinic.ub.es.
• ² Interdepartmental Center MASVE, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
• ³ Chair and Rheumatology Unit, Medical School, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Policlinico di Modena, Modena, Italy.
• ⁴ Laboratory of Autoimmune Diseases Josep Font, CELLEX-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Autoimmune Diseases, ICMiD, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain; Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Hospital CIMA- Sanitas, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁵ Laboratory of Autoimmune Diseases Josep Font, CELLEX-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain; Rheumatology Department, Hospital Privado Universitario de Córdoba, INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD (INICSA), National Scientific and Technical Research Council, CONICET - CORDOBA - Argentina.
• ⁶ Department of Clinical Immunology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
• ⁷ Department of Rheumatology & Vasculitis Center, University of Lübeck, Germany.
• ⁸ Liver Unit, IRCCS "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza", San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
• ⁹ Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, UMR 7211, and Inflammation-Immunopathology-Biotherapy Department (DHU i2B), F-75005 Paris, France; INSERM, UMR_S 959, F-75013 Paris, France; CNRS, FRE3632, F-75005 Paris, France; AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, F-75013 Paris, France.
• ¹⁰ Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
• ¹¹ Chairman, Department of Medicine, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Vice President for Research, Inova Health System, Professor of Medicine, VCU-Inova Campus, The Claude Moore Health Education and Research Center, Beatty Center for Integrated Research, Falls Church, VA, USA.