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[Autoimmune hepatitis in children]
1Département de pédiatrie, hôpital Edouard-Herriot, Lyon, France.
Abstract:
Autoimmune hepatitis is one of the major etiologies of chronic hepatitis in children. Chronic hepatitis may present with numerous hepatic clinical manifestations, associated with extrahepatic disorders. The etiology is unknown and the disease is characterized by the auto-antibody pattern and the positive response to immunosuppressive treatment.