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Review article: overlap syndromes and autoimmune liver disease.
Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics - 1 Sept 2012
Trivedi P J, Hirschfield G M
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BACKGROUND: Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) all nestle within the family of autoimmune liver diseases, whereby the result of immune-mediated liver injury gives rise to varied clinical presentations. Some patients demonstrate a phenotype whereby there is evidence of either PBC or PSC together with overlapping features of AIH. Due to an absence of...
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