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A 50-year experience with autoimmune hepatitis: and where are we now?
Journal of gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2011
Mackay Ian R
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BACKGROUND: Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) as chronic active hepatitis became recognized in the 1940s as a progressive hyperglobulinemic disease affecting younger women attributed to persisting virus infection of the liver: autoimmunity then was barely on the horizon. EARLY OBSERVATIONS: The lupus erythematosus (LE) cell reported in 1948 signified the presence of antinuclear autoantibodies, promoting perceptions of...
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