Corticosteroids or not in severe acute or fulminant autoimmune hepatitis: therapeutic brinksmanship and the point beyond salvation

AJ Czaja - Liver Transplantation, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Acute and fulminant forms of autoimmune hepatitis were recognized by the International
Autoimmune Hepatitis Group in 1992 when it codified diagnostic criteria and waived the …

Acute severe autoimmune hepatitis–timing for steroids and role of other immunosuppressive agents

R Liberal, G Macedo - Journal of Hepatology, 2021 - journal-of-hepatology.eu
We read with great interest the manuscript by de Martin et al., 1 reporting early predictive
factors for a non-response to corticosteroid therapy in acute severe autoimmune hepatitis …

Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of acute severe autoimmune hepatitis

L Zheng, Y Liu, Y Shang, Z Han, Y Han - BMC gastroenterology, 2021 - Springer
Background and aim Acute severe autoimmune hepatitis (AS-AIH) is a rare cause of acute
liver failure (ALF), which is often neglected and delayed in treatment. The purpose of this …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing management in autoimmune hepatitis with liver failure at initial presentation

JR Potts, S Verma - World Journal of Gastroenterology: WJG, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a disease of unknown etiology, its hallmark being ongoing
hepatic inflammation. By its very nature, it is a chronic condition, although increasingly, we …

Treatment and outcome of autoimmune hepatitis: Audit of 28 UK centres

V Gordon, R Adhikary, V Appleby, D Das… - Liver …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background With few data regarding treatment and outcome of patients with AIH outside of
large centres we present such a study of patients with AIH in 28 UK hospitals of varying size …

[PDF][PDF] Longterm corticosteroid use after liver transplantation for autoimmune hepatitis is safe and associated with a lower incidence of recurrent disease

TL Krishnamoorthy, J Miezynska‐Kurtycz… - Liver …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Patients transplanted for autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) are at risk of recurrent disease. Our
current practice is to maintain long‐term low‐dose corticosteroids with additional …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical characteristics and corticosteroid therapy in patients with autoimmune-hepatitis-induced liver failure

B Zhu, SL You, ZH Wan, HL Liu, YH Rong… - World journal of …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
AIM: To investigate the clinical features, response to corticosteroids, and prognosis of
autoimmune hepatitis (AIH)-induced liver failure in China. METHODS: A total of 22 patients …

[PDF][PDF] Early predictors of short‐term prognosis in acute and acute severe autoimmune hepatitis

M Biewenga, A Inderson, ME Tushuizen… - Liver …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Presentation of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) can differ from nonacute to acute autoimmune
hepatitis (A‐AIH) with jaundice and acute severe autoimmune hepatitis (AS‐AIH) with …

Clinicopathological features of severe and fulminant forms of autoimmune hepatitis

S Yasui, K Fujiwara, Y Yonemitsu, S Oda… - Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Background and aims Diagnosis of the acute presentation of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is
difficult because patients do not always show typical clinicopathological features of AIH …

Determinants of outcomes in autoimmune hepatitis presenting as acute on chronic liver failure without extrahepatic organ dysfunction upon treatment with steroids

S Sharma, S Agarwal, S Gopi, A Anand, S Mohta… - Journal of Clinical and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and aims Autoimmune hepatitis presenting as acute on chronic liver failure (AIH-
ACLF) is a novel entity with limited data on clinical course and management. We assessed …