Autoimmune Cholangitis: A Variant Syndrome of Autoimmune Hepatitis
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Autoimmune Cholangitis: A Variant Syndrome of Autoimmune Hepatitis
Autoimmune cholangitis (AIC) or autoimmune cholangiopathy is a chronic inflammation of liver and a variant syndrome of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH). We present a case of an adult female who had biochemical features of cholestasis and transaminasemia but aminotransferases were not in the hepatitis range and had histological evidence of bile duct injury which was subsequently diagnosed as autoimmun...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Hepatology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2090-6587,2090-6595
DOI: 10.1155/2014/501530