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Primary biliary cirrhosis: Clinical and laboratory criteria for its diagnosis.
World journal of gastroenterology - 7 Jul 2015
Reshetnyak Vasiliy Ivanovich
Abstract excerpt
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic progressive cholestatic granulomatous, and destructive inflammatory lesion of small intralobular and septal bile ducts, which is likely to be caused by an autoimmune mechanism with a the presence of serum antimitochondrial antibodies and a potential tendency to progress to cirrhosis. Despite the fact that the etiology of this disease has been unknown so far, there has...
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