BACKGROUND Autoimmune Hepatitis is a chronic liver disease which affects young people and can result in liver failure leading to death or transplantation yet there is a lack of information on the incidence and prevalence of this disease and its natural history in the UK. A means of obtaining this information is via the use of clinical databases formed of electronic primary care records. How rel...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can cause frequently asymptomatic (or anicteric) and self-limited hepatitis, while occasionally may result in considerable cholestatic hepatitis. Herein, we describe the case of a previously healthy toddler (26 month old girl) with prolonged cholestasis, elevated serum transaminases, EBV serology compatible with recent EBV infection and positive anti liver kidney micros...

Autoimmunity and viral infections are closely associated fields, and viruses have been proposed as a likely aetiological, contributory or triggering factors of systemic autoimmune diseases. Hepatitis C virus seems to be the virus usually associated with the appearance of autoimmune diseases, and the relationship between chronic hepatitis C virus infection and some autoimmune disease has been st...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Recent studies demonstrated an association of STAT4 polymorphisms with autoimmune diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis, indicating multiple autoimmune diseases share common susceptibility genes. We therefore investigated the influence of STAT4 polymorphisms on the susceptibility and phenotype of type-1 autoimmune hepatitis in a Japanese Nation...

Autoimmune liver disorders in childhood include autoimmune hepatitis and autoimmune sclerosing cholangitis. These inflammatory liver disorders are characterised histologically by interface hepatitis, biochemically by elevated transaminase levels and serologically by autoantibodies and increased levels of immunoglobulin G. Autoimmune hepatitis is particularly aggressive in children and progresse...

background: â  advanced hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis has generally been considered to be irreversible. the aim of this study was to determine whether cirrhosis is reversible.â  â  methods: â  seven patients with autoimmune hepatitis with histologic evidence of cirrhosis were enrolled. after treatment, they had follow-up liver biopsy while in clinical and biochemical remission. biopsy specimen...

hepatitis a infection is usually a self–limited disease during childhood. autoimmune manifestations are rarely reported among patients with ha infection. we describe a previously healthy 6-yr-old male with acute hepatitis a who developed immune thrombocytopenia.

The liver is an organ that withstands a lot of insults due to various things such as infection, toxins and even our own immune system. There are injuries the relatively common in medicine viral hepatitis caused by different strains Hepatitis A-E, autoimmune hepatitis, injury drugs acetaminophen. However, syphilis causing not seen often there certain features distinguish syphilitic should be rep...