Article
Cholestatic liver disease.
Digestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland) - 1 Jan 2013
Jüngst Christoph, Lammert Frank
Abstract excerpt
Cholestasis develops as a consequence of impaired bile formation and/or bile flow and can be classified as intra- or extrahepatic. Chronic cholestatic diseases are mostly intrahepatic with the exception of primary and secondary sclerosing cholangitis affecting intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts. Recent genome-wide association studies have confirmed major histocompatibility complex associations and discovered...
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