Article
Chronic hepatitis C associated with anti-liver/kidney microsome-1 antibody is not a subgroup of autoimmune hepatitis.
Journal of gastroenterology - 1 Dec 1997
Miyakawa H, Kitazawa E, Abe K, Kawaguchi N, Fuzikawa H, Kikuchi K, Kako M, Komatsu T, Hayashi N, Kiyosawa K
Abstract excerpt
To determine whether "autoimmune hepatitis type IIb" should be categorized as a subgroup of autoimmune hepatitis, we conducted a clinicopathological study of 25 adult Japanese patients who were positive for anti-liver/kidney microsome-1 (anti-LKM-1) anti-body and infected with the hepatitis C vir...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Autoantibodies
- Biopsy
- Blotting, Western
- Female
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect
- Genotype
- HLA-DR4 Antigen
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis, Autoimmune
- Hepatitis, Chronic
- Humans
- Interferons
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Prednisolone
