Zmiany na błonach śluzowych jamy ustnej w przebiegu zakażenia wirusem HCV

*Izabela Rodziewicz, Aleksandra Czernic, Jan Błaszczyk

Summary
Infection by chronic hepatitis virus (Hepatitis C Virus, HCV) occurs in approximately 3% of people worldwide. It leads not only to chronic hepatitis, but also to a number of extrahepatic symptoms.
The most common way of infecting is a blood way. It occurs in an acute form (mainly without symptoms, but high temperature or muscle pains may appear) or in a chronic form.
The symptoms accompanying the chronic inflammation are for example: aching in a right hypochondrium, feeling of fatigue, increase in ALT value. In less than half of diseased also some extrahepatic manifestations of infection may occur, i.e.: cryoglobulinaemia, hyperthyroidism, mebranous nephritis, retina inflammation, skin porphyria and more. The following article presents disease entities which may occur in the mouth that is infected with HCV. The most common are: lichen planus, Sjögren?s syndrome-like symptoms and changes with lymphoproliferative nature, Behçet?s disease, glands inflammation, and others more rarely appearing, for example: leukoplakia, candidiasis, herpes oral cavity inflammation, melanoplakia, cheilitis, Delbanco?s syndrome, Fordyce?s syndrome, ulcerations and patechiae. We have described aetiological factors of disease entities mentioned above and their accompanying symptoms. There are also presented the differences between primary disorder and disease related to HCV virus infection, as it occurs in lichen planus Wilsoni and Sjögren?s syndrome.

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