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Autoimmune Hepatitis - Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Overlap Syndrome
Indira Bairy1, Anupam Berwal2, Shubha Seshadri3
1Professor, Department of Microbiology, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Abstract:
Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH) and Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) are important immune mediated liver diseases. They are usually differentiated based on clinical, biochemical, serological and histological parameters. The presence of autoantibodies, clinical and serological findings can sometimes occur in different combinations leading to overlap syndromes, which is rare. Early recognition of such overlap syndromes is clinically significant from treatment point of view. Here, we report a case of AIH-PBC overlap syndrome with a brief review of literature on overlap syndromes.
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