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A patient with hepatitis B, antimicrosomal antibodies, and autoimmune hypothyroidism
W R Catapani1, O Valente, C Aguiar
1Department of Medicine, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|December 1, 1996
Abstract:
A 37-year-man with chronic hepatitis B was diagnosed as having antimicrosomal antibodies and subclinical hypothyroidism. The association of autoimmune manifestations with hepatitis B has been less frequently reported than with hepatitis C virus. It is discussed whether this patient illustrates a case of spontaneous development of antimicrosomal antibodies, only casually associated with the presence of hepatitis B virus, or there is a real causative relationship between both conditions.