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Management of refractory autoimmune hepatitis with rituximab: a case series [PDF]

Journal of Medical Case Reports
Background and aims Most patients with autoimmune hepatitis respond to the standard of care of prednisolone in combination with a thiopurine, or a second line of mycophenolate mofetil or tacrolimus.
Nicholas M. Batt, Stephen D. Bloom, Geoffrey Haar, Amanda J. Nicoll   +3 more
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Autoimmune Hepatitis [PDF]

Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, 2006
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) was the first chronic liver disease in which remission was achieved by immunosuppression. Prognosis is poor when left untreated. Since the original description in 1950 by Waldenström, the initially reported treatment option has remained until today and is the core of the basic therapeutic strategy of inducing remission with ...
Stefan, Lueth, Ansgar W, Lohse
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Autoimmune Hepatitis [PDF]

Current Pediatric Reviews, 2015
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a severe hepatopathy characterised by female preponderance, hypertransaminasaemia, elevated levels of immunoglobulin (IgG), presence of serum autoantibodies and, histologically, by interface hepatitis. AIH occurs both in adults and children, being particularly aggressive in the latter.
Longhi, Maria Serena, Mieli-Vergani, Giorgina, Vergani, Diego   +2 more
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Autoimmune hepatitis [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 1996
Autoimmune hepatitis is an inflammatory liver disease in which the immune system is believed to orchestrate an immune attack onto the liver cell. Current knowledge suggests that both T helper 1 (TH1) and TH2 programmes are involved in the generation of the liver damage.
Vergani, D, Mieli-Vergani, G
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Autoimmune Hepatitis Leading to Liver Cirrhosis: A Case Report

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2022
Autoimmune hepatitis is a rare form of chronic liver inflammation that begins as acute hepatitis and progresses to chronic liver disease. It presents with varied clinical features from acute hepatitis to chronic liver diseases like chronic viral ...
Moon Shrestha, Sudip Chandra Subedi, Sangam Shah, Jeny Acharya, Milan Regmi, Neha Mehta   +5 more
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Histologic variant form of autoimmune hepatitis with prominent zonal necrosis [PDF]

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2002
Autoimmune hepatitis type 1 in a 8-year old girl is described. The diagnosis was established using International Autoimmune hepatitis group scoring system.
Stanković Ivica, Zlatković Marija, Prokić Dragan, Plamenac Pavle   +3 more
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Health-related quality of life in patients with autoimmune hepatitis: A questionnaire survey. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
AIM:Health-related quality of life is impaired in patients with autoimmune hepatitis, but the association between health-related quality of life and patients' backgrounds remains unknown.
Atsushi Takahashi, Kei Moriya, Hiromasa Ohira, Teruko Arinaga-Hino, Mikio Zeniya, Takuji Torimura, Masanori Abe, Akinobu Takaki, Jong-Hon Kang, Ayano Inui, Tomoo Fujisawa, Kaname Yoshizawa, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Nobuhiro Nakamoto, Kazuhiko Koike, Hitoshi Yoshiji, Aya Goto, Atsushi Tanaka, Zobair M Younossi, Hajime Takikawa, Japan AIH Study Group   +20 more
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Autoimmune hepatitis in 828 Brazilian children and adolescents: clinical and laboratory findings, histological profile, treatments, and outcomes

Jornal de Pediatria (Versão em Português), 2019
Objective: This large study with a long‐term follow‐up aimed to evaluate the clinical presentation, laboratory findings, histological profile, treatments, and outcomes of children and adolescents with autoimmune hepatitis. Methods: The medical records of
Gilda Porta, Elisa de Carvalho, Jorge L. Santos, Jorge Gama, Cristian V. Borges, Renata B.P.M. Seixas, Alexandre R. Ferreira, Irene K. Miura, Themis R. Silveira, Luciana R. Silva, Eleonora D.T. Fagundes, Maria A. Bellomo‐Brandao, Regina Sawamura, Sandra M. Vieira, Melina U. Melere, Cibele D.F. Marques, Renata P. Pugliese, Vera L. Danesi, Adriana Porta, Marise E. Marsillac, Marcia A. Valladares, Daniela G. Menezes, Carlos Kieling, Mariana N. de Paula, Juliana R. Vasconcelos, Cristina T. Ferreira, Nilza Perin, Leonardo R. Resende, Jussara Maia, Adriana M.A. De Tommaso, Gabriel Hessel   +30 more
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An Outbreak Presents An Opportunity to Learn About A Rare Phenotype: Autoimmune Hepatitis After Acute Hepatitis A

Annals of Hepatology, 2020
There are rare instances where patients with acute hepatitis A virus infection subsequently developed autoimmune hepatitis. The diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis in this setting is challenging. Furthermore, information on treatment with steroids or other
Vijay S.-Are, Lindsay Yoder, Niharika Samala, Lauren Nephew, Craig Lammert, Raj Vuppalanchi   +5 more
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Atypical presentation of autoimmune hepatitis–primary sclerosing cholangitis overlap syndrome associated with hypereosinophilia: a case report and review of the literature

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2021
Background Autoimmune hepatitis–primary sclerosing cholangitis overlap syndrome is a form of autoimmune hepatitis with cholestatic features and is characterized by negative anti-mitochondrial antibody and cholangiographic changes on magnetic resonance ...
Behzad Hatami, Hamide Rahmani Seraji, Mohaddese fallahi   +2 more
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