Objective: To advocate formal subclassification of autoimmune hepatitis into two types
based on the presence of mutually exclusive immunoserological markers, target antigen …

Autoimmune hepatitis is an unresolving inflammation of the liver that is characterized by
hypergammaglobulinemia, autoantibodies in serum, and the presence of at least periportal …

The syndrome of autoimmune CAH (AI-CAH) has been recognized in white subjects for
more than 30 yr, and the characteristic features have been extensively reviewed (1-6). It is a …

Hepatitis C virus-related chronic hepatitis may be associated with various immunological
disorders. The aim of this study was to determine prospectively the prevalence of the clinical …

A striking association between hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and mixed cryoglobulinemia
(MC) has been shown; thus, HCV seems to play an important etiopathogenetic role in this …

Objective: To determine, using a serotyping assay, whether the occurrence of extrahepatic
immunologic disorders in patients with chronic hepatitis C is dependent on hepatitis C virus …

We studied 333 chronic hepatitis C patients to evaluate the natural course of this disease.
Among 57 patients undergoing serial biopsies, 20 had chronic persistent hepatitis (CPH) at …

Background and Design: An increased prevalence of chronic liver disease has been
reported in patients with lichen planus (LP). We report six cases of LP associated with …

We assessed the pattern of hepatitis C viremia in chronic liver disease by studying 100
hepatitis C virus antibody-positive patients: 48 with chronic hepatitis, 21 with cirrhosis and …

The hepatitis C virus (HCV), a single-stranded RNA virus, is the major cause of
posttransfusion hepatitis. HCV isolates differ in nucleotide and amino acid sequences …