Special clinical challenges in autoimmune hepatitis: the elderly, males, pregnancy, mild disease, fulminant onset, and nonwhite patients

AJ Czaja - Seminars in liver disease, 2009 - thieme-connect.com
Autoimmune hepatitis has diverse presentations that may mask its identity, affect its clinical
behavior, and confound its management. The objectives of this report are to characterize the …

High levels of proinflammatory cytokines IL-6, IL-8, TNF-A, IL-23, and IFN-γ in Tunisian patients with type 1 autoimmune hepatitis

M Chaouali, MB Azaiez, A Tezeghdenti… - European Cytokine …, 2020 - Springer
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic hepatitis of unknown etiology and several cytokines
have been implicated in its pathogenesis and onset. Our objective was to determine the …

The revised international autoimmune hepatitis score in chronic liver diseases including autoimmune hepatitis/overlap syndromes and autoimmune hepatitis with …

PA Papamichalis, K Zachou, GK Koukoulis… - Journal of autoimmune …, 2007 - Springer
Background We conducted a study in order to determine the usefulness and diagnostic
value of International Autoimmune Hepatitis Group (IAHG) score in non-autoimmune …

Liver transplantation for autoimmune hepatitis: a single-center experience

H Khalaf, W Mourad, Y El-Sheikh, A Abdo… - Transplantation …, 2007 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To present our experience with deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT)
and living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for autoimmune hepatitis (AIH). PATIENTS …

HLA-DRB1 and DQB1 alleles in Japanese type 1 autoimmune hepatitis: The predisposing role of the DR4/DR8 heterozygous genotype

S Oka, H Furukawa, M Yasunami, A Kawasaki… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Objective Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic progressive liver disease. AIH is
composed predominantly of type 1 in Japanese populations. The genetic and environmental …

A case of autoimmune hepatitis treated with rituximab

E Barth, J Clawson - Case reports in gastroenterology, 2010 - karger.com
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a form of chronic hepatitis of unknown etiology. It was first
described in the 1950s as a form of chronic hepatitis noted in younger women. It was later …

Development of a spontaneous liver disease resembling autoimmune hepatitis in mice lacking tyro3, axl and mer receptor tyrosine kinases

N Qi, P Liu, Y Zhang, H Wu, Y Chen, D Han - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a severe type of chronic liver disease. The lack of appropriate
animal models has resulted in a limited understanding regarding the etiology of AIH. Here …

Guidelines for therapy of autoimmune liver disease

H Ishibashi, A Komori, S Shimoda… - Seminars in liver …, 2007 - thieme-connect.com
The principle of therapy for chronic inflammatory liver diseases is the removal of causal
agents. For autoimmune liver diseases, however, total removal of causal agents and …

Hepatic centrilobular zonal necrosis with positive antinuclear antibody: a unique subtype or early disease of autoimmune hepatitis?

Y Zen, K Notsumata, N Tanaka, Y Nakanuma - Human pathology, 2007 - Elsevier
Centrilobular zonal necrosis (CZN) is not a pattern typically associated with autoimmune
hepatitis (AIH). However, it has occasionally been reported that CZN occurs without the …

Effects and regulation of autoreactive CD8+ T cells in a transgenic mouse model of autoimmune hepatitis

M Zierden, E Kühnen, M Odenthal, HP Dienes - Gastroenterology, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic inflammatory liver disease
of unknown etiology. Autoreactive T cells are thought to mediate liver injury, but the …