Present status of autoimmune hepatitis in Japan - correlating the characteristics with international criteria in an area with a high rate of HCV infection

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1207-1212

  Toda, Gotaro ^a   Zeniya, Mikio ^a   Watanabe, Fumitoki ^a   Imawari, Michio ^b   Kiyosawa, Kendo ^c   Nishioka, Mikio ^c   Tsuji, Takao ^c   Omata, Masao ^c  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Antinuclear antibody; Autoimmune hepatitis; Chronic hepatitis C; Hepatitis C virus; HLA; Interferon

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; HLA DR4 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON; PREDNISOLONE; SMOOTH MUSCLE ANTIBODY; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CELL INFILTRATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NECROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0030834150     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(97)80453-9     Document Type: Article

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