Acute Liver Failure in an Antimitochondrial Antibody-Positive 63-Year-Old Man

Acute Liver Failure in an Antimitochondrial Antibody-Positive 63-Year-Old Man

Antimitochondrial antibody (AMA) is one of the representative features of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). PBC is a female-dominant disease usually presenting intrahepatic bile duct destruction, cholestasis and fibrosis with or without chronic nonsuppurative destructive cholangitis. We presented the...

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Main Authors: Toru Wakamatsu, Tatsuo Kanda, Akinobu Tawada, Tatsuo Miyamura, Masanori Takahashi, Tetsuhiro Chiba, Makoto Arai, Hitoshi Maruyama, Keiichi Fujiwara, Fumio Imazeki, Osamu Yokosuka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2012-06-01
Series:Case Reports in Gastroenterology
Subjects:
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Acute liver failure
Autoimmune hepatitis
Overlap syndrome
Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/339915

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