Article
Autoimmune chronic active hepatitis in a family.
Gut - 1 Mar 1991
Hodges S, Lobo-Yeo A, Donaldson P, Tanner M S, Vergani D
Abstract excerpt
A positive family history of autoimmune disease is common among patients with autoimmune chronic active hepatitis, but usually autoimmunity is directed at organs other than the liver. We document for the first time the multiple occurrence of autoimmune chronic active hepatitis in a family. Out of a sibship of seven, three sisters developed this, one sister developed coeliac and autoimmune thyroid disease, one...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Celiac Disease
- Child
- Copper
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- HLA-DR Antigens
- HLA-DR3 Antigen
- Hepatitis, Chronic
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin G
