[Liver-specific lipoprotein component level in circulating immune complexes in liver diseases]

The examinations have involved 177 subjects (80 of these were regularly examined for a year), 148 of them suffering from acute or chronic diseases of the liver and 29 normal subjects. Circulating immune complexes (CIC) containing specific liver lipoprotein (SLL) were detected by the enzyme-binding immunosorption complement-fixation test. SLL CICs are most frequently detectable in the patients with acute hepatitis B (in 19 of 48), with chronic active autoimmune hepatitis (in 8 of 9), and with primary biliary cirrhosis of the liver (in 18 of 20 patients).