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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 virus (HCV). Anti-LKM-1 was determined by indirect immunofluorescence and by the double immunodiffusion assays we have...
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