or prominent changes suggestive of another disease Interface hepatitis, moderate to severe No biliary lesions, granulomas, or prominent changes suggestive of another disease AIH = autoimmune ...

Corticosteroid therapy induces clinical, laboratory and histological improvements in 80% of patients with autoimmune hepatitis. Prednisone, alone or at a lower dose in combination with ...

finding that 89 percent of the children with acute hepatitis—but only 16 percent of Scottish children in general—carry an allele of the HLA-DRB1 gene that was previously associated with autoimmune ...

Chronic hepatitis C infection can lead to autoimmune disease through a "perfect storm" of mutations in B cells, rather than the previously believed mechanism of molecular mimicry.

Researchers have uncovered how chronic hepatitis C infection leads to autoimmune disease, which opens new paths for treatments Scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have ...

Standard immunosuppressive therapy, consisting of prednisone and azathioprine, is ineffective in 10–20% of patients with autoimmune hepatitis. Inductivo-Yu and colleagues, therefore ...

(American Journal of Gastroenterology) Researchers in the Journal of Hepatology reviewed recent advances in autoimmune hepatitis.

The research, published in the journal Immunity, focuses on hepatitis C virus (HCV)—which affects an estimated 58 million people worldwide—and its role in triggering a serious autoimmune ...