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 ...

Autoimmune hepatitis is characteristically responsive to corticosteroids, often used in combination with azathioprine to obtain a steroid-sparing effect. For primary biliary cirrhosis ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.