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Anti-Nuclear Antibody Screening Using HEp-2 Cells
Published on: June 23, 2014
Autoimmune hepatitis with anti centromere antibodies
Moushumi Lodh1, Debkant Pradhan2, Ashok Parida3
1Department of Biochemistry, The Mission Hospital, Durgapur, West Bengal 713212, India.
Abstract:
We present the case report of a 49-year-old type 2 diabetes mellitus patient presenting with abdominal pain and black stool for 15 days. A proper workup of laboratory investigations helped us diagnose autoimmune hepatitis with anticentromere antibodies. The authors would like to highlight that screening AIH patients for anticentromere antibody is not mandatory but can be considered, especially in the presence of disease-related symptomatology for quicker, more accurate diagnosis and optimum management.
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