Letitia Toma

Department of Internal Medicine, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania

Publications

• Short communication   
  Cryoglobulinemia and Inflammation in COVID-19 Infected Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C
  Author(s): Dumitru Cristinel Badiu, Razvan Ioan Simu*, Anca Zgura, Letitia Toma, Andrei Silaghi, Bogdan Haineala and Adriana Mercan Stanciu
  
  We aim to observe the inflammatory status in patients with hepatitis C associated cryoglobulinemia after COVID-19 infection. We evaluated 3 patients with hepatitis C associated cryoglobulinemia, 6 patients with hepatitis C and 16 patients without comorbidities with COVID-19 infection. Inflammatory markers were significantly increased in 2 patients with cryoglobulinemia, as opposed to patients without the associated condition, with or without hepatitis C. In the third patient the levels of C reactive protein and erythrocyte sedimentation rate were similar to HCV positive patients... Read More»