Autoimmune hepatitis, from mechanisms to therapy.

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In 1950, Waldenström was the first to describe a chronic form of hepatitis in young women. Subsequently, the disease was found to be associated with other autoimmune syndromes and was later termed "lupoid hepatitis" because of the presence of antinuclear antibodies. In 1965, it became designated by Mackay et al. as "autoimmune hepatitis" at an international meeting, at which the general concept of autoimmunity...

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