Special clinical challenges in autoimmune hepatitis: the elderly, males, pregnancy, mild disease, fulminant onset, and nonwhite patients.

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Autoimmune hepatitis has diverse presentations that may mask its identity, affect its clinical behavior, and confound its management. The objectives of this report are to characterize the populations that are underdiagnosed or difficult to manage and to provide guidelines for meeting their challenges. The elderly have an aggressive, indolent liver disease that responds well to conventional corticosteroid...

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