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[Chronic hepatitis C virus infection associated with anti-LKM 1]
R Macenlle1, J Yáñez, F Suárez
1Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Juan Canalejo, La Coruña.
Gastroenterologia Y Hepatologia
|April 1, 1996
Abstract:
A case of chronic hepatitis in a 20-year-old patient in whom hepatitis C virus infection markers and type 1 liver and kidney antimicrosome antibodies (anti-LKM 1) were detected, thereby allowing diagnosis of autoimmune type 2b hepatitis, is reported. The different types of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and the type 2a and 2b AIH are discussed as are the rejection of this terminology by some authors followed by their proposals and the therapeutic strategy to be used in these patients.