Article
Evidence against hepatitis viruses as important causes of severe autoimmune hepatitis in the United States.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Jul 1993
Czaja A J, Carpenter H A, Santrach P J, Moore S B, Taswell H F, Homburger H A
Abstract excerpt
To determine if the hepatitis viruses are important etiologic factors in autoimmune hepatitis, the clinical, immunoserologic, virologic and HLA phenotypes of 105 of the latter patients were assessed prospectively and compared to 45 patients with chronic viral hepatitis. Patients with autoimmune h...
Topics
- Adult
- Antibodies
- Antibodies, Antinuclear
- Aspartate Aminotransferases
- Autoantibodies
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Chronic Disease
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Female
- HLA-A1 Antigen
- HLA-B8 Antigen
- HLA-DR Antigens
