Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC)
PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS
... Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) is an important clinical entity. If AMA is negative by immunofluores- cence, it needs to be repeated by ELISA or immuno- blotting. If negative by any of these ...
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Popular and unpopular infectious agents linked to primary biliary cirrhosis
... of PBC is currently unknown [130, ...a PBC biliary epithelium cDNA library ...of PBC and the integration of the virus in cholangiocytes from patients with PBC ...of primary ...
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Primary biliary cirrhosis
... Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic and slowly progressive cholestatic liver disease of autoimmune etiology characterized by injury of the intrahepatic bile ducts that may eventually ...
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Genomic variants associated with primary biliary cirrhosis
... Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an autoimmune hepatobiliary disease characterized by immune- mediated injury of small and medium-sized bile ducts, eventually leading to liver ...addressed ...
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Trends in liver transplantation for primary biliary cirrhosis in the Netherlands 1988-2008
... past Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) was one of the main indications for liver transplantation (LTX), whereas nowadays, the proportion of patients receiving a transplant for PBC has ...
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Immunopathogenesis of primary biliary cirrhosis: an old wives' tale
... Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a cholestatic liver disease characterised by the autoimmune destruction of the small intrahepatic bile ...transplantation. PBC is characterised by the ...
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Receptor Specific Clearance by the Reticuloendothelial System in Chronic Liver Diseases: DEMONSTRATION OF DEFECTIVE C3b SPECIFIC CLEARANCE IN PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS
... with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), chronic hepatitis, or alcoholic cirrhosis and normal control subjects and compared with the clearance of aggregated human serum ...with PBC ...
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Natural history and management of primary biliary cirrhosis
... Abstract: Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that mainly targets the cholangiocytes of the interlobular bile ducts in the ...disease. PBC is ...
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PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS
... significant. Urine occasional granular casts. RBC 18/HPF, 4 pus cells/HPF, occult blood +ve. On the basis of the above presentation and laboratory investigations it was believed her primary diagnosis was ...
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The X-factor in primary biliary cirrhosis: monosomy X and xenobiotics
... Abstract Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic, cholestatic, autoimmune liver disease characterised by the destruction of small- and medium-sized bile ...of PBC includes ...
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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis at Hospital Kuala Lumpur: A Study of 11 Cases Seen Between 1992 and 1999
... Primary Biliary Cirrhosis at Hospital Kuala Lumpur AStudy of 11 Cases Seen Between 1992 and 1999 Primary Biliary Cirrhosis at Hospital Kuala Lumpur A Study of 11 Cases Seen Between 1992 and 1999 R Kan[.] ...
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In vitro cell mediated cytotoxicity in primary biliary cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis Dysfunction of spontaneous cell mediated cytotoxicity in primary biliary cirrhosis
... with primary biliary cirrhosis and hepatitis B surface antigen-negative chronic hepatitis were investigated using 51Cr-labeled human Chang and EL-4 mouse sarcoma cell targets in assays of spontaneous ...
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Molecular mimicry as a possible pathogenetic mechanism in primary biliary cirrhosis.
... In light of the recent major technological advances in the analysis of MHC-presented peptides (Chicz and Urban, 1994) it should be possible to characterize MHC-bound peptides on BEC, which would help determine what ...
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Human umbilical cord blood derived mononuclear cell transplantation for umbilical hernia and hepatic hydrothorax in primary biliary cirrhosis
... December 23 rd , 2010. Physical examination showed: poor general condition, slight scleral icterus, coarse breath sounds in left lung, absent breath sounds in right lower lung, abdominal distension and soft, umbilical ...
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An increased risk of urinary tract infection precedes development of primary biliary cirrhosis
... of PBC, we do not have great concern as to error as we have previously shown that the epidemiology of PBC when described in this database closely mirrors the best modern conventional epidemiological studies ...
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... (AIH), primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), involves specifi c diagnostic tests, such as IFA-AMA, IFA anti- dsDNA and immunoblotting for the detection of autoantibodies for specifi c autoantigens ...
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Ayuvedic approach in Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC): A case study
... Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC), previously called Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC), is a chronic disease in which the bile ducts in the liver is slowly ...causes ...
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Obeticholic acid for the treatment of primary biliary cholangitis in adult patients: clinical utility and patient selection
... Abstract: Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), previously known as primary biliary “cirrhosis”, is a rare autoimmune liver disease characterized by the hallmark autoantibodies to ...
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Primary sclerosing cholangitis: diagnostic and management challenges
... the biliary tree causes important clinical sequelae, including liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension, and end-stage liver ...Unlike primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), which affects ...
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LIPOPROTEINS IN PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS
... Density gradient analyses In Figure 2, results obtained from analysis of each cut in the density gradient of low density p < 1.063 lipoproteins floated from unfractionated plasma of a no[r] ...
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