Familial intrahepatic cholestatic cirrhosis with positive antimitochondrial antibody: Familial primary biliary cirrhosis

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 255-258

  Ramakrishna, Banumathi ^a   Eapen, C E ^a   Kang, Gagandeep ^a   Kurian, George ^a   Chandy, George M ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Antimitochondrial antibody; Copper; Copper associated protein; Familial; Primary biliary cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

COPPER; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COPPER METABOLISM; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHOLESTASIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; PEDIGREE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0034074545     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-200004000-00010     Document Type: Article

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