Hepatitis, Autoimmune
Review of Autoimmune Hepatitis: Diagnosis and Treatment
... Background: Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a hepatocyte injury characte- rized by a dis-regulated immune system, inflammation of the liver with inter- face hepatitis, serum antibodies and elevated ...
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Review Article Autoimmune Hepatitis: A Review
... Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH) is a periportal hepatitis with increased immunoglobulins and auto antibodies, which primarily responds to immunosuppression. It affects women 3.6 times more commonly than ...
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The immunopathogenetic role of autoantibodies in canine autoimmune hepatitis: lessons to learn from human autoimmune hepatitis
... canine hepatitis can be broadly classified to infectious and non-infectious-related ...chronic hepatitis is largely due to drugs, toxins, metabolic, genetic and autoimmune causes ...canine ...
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Hepatitis C virus infection and autoimmune diseases
... Abstract: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated with a number of extrahepatic ...of autoimmune disorders, both organ-specific and not ...inducing autoimmune disease, a considerable amount ...
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Autoimmune hepatitis triggered by nitrofurantoin: a case series
... for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hepatitis E, cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus and human immunodeficiency virus ...acute hepatitis with an autoimmune component and ...
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Anti-CD20 Treatment of Giant Cell Hepatitis With Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
... cell hepatitis with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (GCH-AHA) is a rare autoimmune disease of infancy characterized by severe liver dis- ease associated with Coombs-positive hemolytic ...
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Evaluation of the role of HLA-DR antigens in Japanese type 1 autoimmune hepatitis
... International Autoimmune Hepatitis Group (IAHG) [2], which defines AIH on the basis of definite or empirical judgment by experienced hepatologists after ruling out other liver dis- ease such as primary ...
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A CASE STUDY ON AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS WITH HAEMOLYTIC ANEMIA
... Autoimmune hepatitis is also called as lupoid ...chronic autoimmune disease of the liver where the liver cells to be inflamed due to our own body immune ...of autoimmune hepatitis in ...
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AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS AMONG AUTOIMMUNE LIVER DISEASE IN BASRAH SOUTH OF IRAQ INCIDENCE AND DIAGNOSIS
... Autoimmune hepatitis is necroinflamatory disease, it can be divided into two types, Diagnostic features include biochemical evidence of transaminitis, elevated IgG and positive ...among Autoimmune ...
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Autoimmune hepatitis in India: profile of an uncommon disease
... 1 autoimmune hepatitis was present in ...of autoimmune diseases, appropriate investiga- tions to exclude other possible causes of liver disease and response to immunosuppressive ...an ...
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Autoimmune hepatitis: current challenges and future prospects
... Abstract: Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic progressive liver disease characterized by high levels of aminotransferases and autoantibodies, hypergammaglobulinemia, and interface ...drug-induced ...
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Successful Treatment of Refractory Autoimmune Hepatitis With Rituximab
... Autoimmune hepatitis is a severe liver disease in which ∼ 10% of patients do not respond to standard treatment. We describe a new rescue therapy using anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies (rituximab). Complete ...
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Epidemiology and treatment of autoimmune hepatitis
... Abstract: Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the liver that occurs worldwide with a low and probably underestimated ...interface hepatitis and other characteristic ...
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Medullary thymic epithelial cell depletion leads to autoimmune hepatitis
... TRAF6, an E3 ubiquitin protein ligase, plays a critical role in T cell tolerance by regulating medullary thymic epithelial cell (mTEC) development. mTECs regulate T cell tolerance by ectopically expressing self-antigens ...
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HLA-DRB1 as a risk factor in children with autoimmune hepatitis and its relation to hepatitis A infection
... of hepatitis A vaccine to protect genetically susceptible patients (other family members) from developing autoimmune hepatitis however; Berry and Smith-Laing [24] reported a case of hepatitis ...
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Association of an overlap syndrome of autoimmune hepatitis and primary biliary cirrhosis with cytomegalovirus infection
... Abstract: A 63-year-old woman, who presented with severe jaundice and elevated serum conjugated bilirubin level, denied alcohol and drug use and showed no evidence of viral hepatitis. Based on clinical and ...
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Autoimmune hepatitis related autoantibodies in children with type 1 diabetes
... Over the one-year study period, 107 children with T1D were identified. One of them has β-thalasemia major and hepatomegaly so was excluded from the study; 106 children with T1D were investigated. The demographic, ...
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Incidence and Characteristics of Autoimmune Hepatitis
... Serum aminotransferase levels were universally elevated. Interestingly, a large number of children had abnormal g-glutamyl transferase and/or elevated alkaline phosphatase levels at diagnosis although they did not ful fi ...
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The ANA-reflex test as a model for improving clinical appropriateness in autoimmune diagnostics
... An interpretative comment on the ANA-reflex report is important, and should include an explanation of the results obtained as well as the possible diagnostic route under- taken [18]. For example, in the presence of an ...
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Autoimmune Liver Diseases in Native Black Africans: Extremely Rare or Inadequately Investigated Diseases?
... Autoimmune liver diseases (AILDs) are rare diseases globally with a reported prevalence of less than 50 per 100,000 people [1]. There are three disease entities with distinct characteristics that are traditionally ...
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