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Chronic hepatitis C and autoimmune cholangitis: a case study and literature review
Pilar Sánchez-Pobre1, Carmen Gonzalez, Estela Paz
1Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital 12 de Octubre, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
|June 18, 2002
Abstract:
We present a case of a chronic hepatitis C with damage of bile ducts resembling primary biliary cirrhosis. The immunological profile (negative antimitochondrial antibodies and positive anti-nuclear antibody) was characteristic of the autoimmune cholangitis. One year of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid returned the liver tests to the normal range but the liver lesions remained unchanged.