We read with interest the recent letter to the editor entitled “Primary Biliary Cirrhosis: Time to Replace a Misnomer” published by Wahl et al. We congratulate the authors for their study based on interviewing new patients and opening again the debate for the name of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). The authors concluded that it is time to replace this misnomer with an adequate name for the dis...

We studied nondiagnostic liver biopsy specimens from 20 patients with definite primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and 18 with definite autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) to identify distinguishing features. All patients had early-stage disease; biopsy specimens were devoid of granulomas or diagnostic features of PBC or AIH. Diagnoses were based on serologic and clinical variables. Sixteen specimens from e...

e objective of the study was to determine psychrotrophic bacteria counts (PBC) and total bacterial counts (TBC) in bulk milk samples collected during a longer period (1999 to 2000). Two sets of samples were analysed. Set 1, including samples collected in three herds, was analysed by the Central Laboratory at České Budějovice. TBC was determined using the apparatus Bactoscan, and PBC by culture...

Low dose methotrexate treatment (MTX) has been proposed as a potentially promising treatment for primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), which accounts for many of the liver transplantations in the USA. However, methotrexate treatment has been found to contribute to lower lung function in conditions other than PBC, and if it occurs concomitant with treatment of PBC, could exacerbate the reduced lung f...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic cholestatic disease of autoimmune origin and has a genetic component. Although it has been reported that the prevalence of the HLA-DRB1*08 allele is high in various populations, the prevalence of HLA alleles in Mexican PBC patients has not been described. The aim of this study was to quantify the prevalence of HLA-B/-DR alleles in ...

BACKGROUND Current methods of female surgical sterilisation require incisional surgery, general anaesthesia and a prolonged recovery time. We studied the safety and effectiveness of Essure pbc, a minimally invasive, transcervically placed micro-insert that occludes the Fallopian tubes, resulting in permanent female contraception. Device under study: The Essure pbc implant is a dynamically expan...

The voltage source converter-high voltage direct current (VSC-HVDC) transmission is the ideal integration technology for grid-connected wind farms. A passivity-based control (PBC) method for VSC-HVDC when the wind farm voltage is unbalanced is proposed in this paper. The mathematical model of a VSC with unbalanced voltage is established. The PBC theory including dissipation inequality and syste...

BACKGROUND Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an autoimmune liver disease characterized by the presence of anti-mitocondrial autoantibodies (AMA) which has an essential role also for diagnosis. In addition, also some anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) have been shown to be highly specific PBC. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of PBC among the adults referring hospital for annua...