Clinical management of autoimmune liver diseases: juncture, opportunities, and challenges ahead.

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The three major autoimmune liver diseases are autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).These conditions are assumed to result from a breakdown in immunological tolerance, which leads to an inflammatory process that causes liver damage.The self-attack is started by T-helper cell-mediated identification of liver autoantigens and B-cell production of...

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