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🌱 created from: cryoglobulinemia

etiologies_of_cryoglobulinemia

• Hematologic diseases:
  • multiple myeloma,
  • MGUS,
  • Waldenström’s,
  • chronic lymphocytic leukemia in type I; B-cell lymphomas or solid-organ malignancies in type II
• Infxns (types II & III):
  • viral (HCV [>80% RNA ⊕], HBV, HIV, HAV, EBV, CMV),
  • bacterial (endocarditis, strep, etc.),
  • fungal (coccidiomycosis, etc.),
  • parasitic (malaria, amoebiasis)
• Autoimmune syndromes (type III >II):
  • Sjögren’s syndrome,
  • SLE,
  • RA,
  • PAN
• Renal transplant recipients (Clin Nephrol 2008;69:239)