Article
Distinctive clinical phenotype and treatment outcome of type 1 autoimmune hepatitis in the elderly.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Mar 2006
Czaja Albert J, Carpenter Herschel A
Abstract excerpt
Autoimmune hepatitis is classically a disease of young women. Our aims were to determine its occurrence, clinical phenotype, and outcome in elderly patients and contrast findings to young adults. Two-hundred-and-five white North American adults with definite type 1 autoimmune hepatitis were grouped according to age at presentation and the groups compared. Forty-seven patients (23%) were aged > or = 60 years...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.