Autoimmune hepatitis: current knowledge.

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Autoimmune hepatitis in children is of type 1, with antinuclear or anti-smooth muscle antibodies, more frequent in teenage girls, or of type 2, with anti-liver-kidney microsomes 1 and/or anti-liver cytosol 1 antibodies, in younger children. Other autoimmune diseases may be present in the patient or his relatives. The diagnosis relies on autoantibodies testing and histology. The treatment with steroids and...

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