• Autoantibodies in autoimmune pancreatitis 

      Smyk, D. S.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Koutsoumpas, A. L.; Kriese, S.; Burroughs, A. K.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2012)
      Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) was first used to describe cases of pancreatitis with narrowing of the pancreatic duct, enlargement of the pancreas, hyper - globulinaemia, and antinuclear antibody (ANA) positivity serologically. ...
    • Popular and unpopular infectious agents linked to primary biliary cirrhosis 

      Koutsoumpas, A. L.; Kriese, S.; Rigopoulou, E. I. (2012)
      Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a progressive cholestatic liver disease characterized by the autoimmune destruction of the biliary epithelial cells of the small and medium-size bile ducts. The disease affects middle ...
    • Primary biliary cirrhosis: Family stories 

      Smyk, D.; Cholongitas, E.; Kriese, S.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2011)
      Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic immune-mediated cholestatic liver disease of unknown aetiology which affects mostly women in middle age. Familial PBC is when PBC affects more than one member of the same family, ...
    • Urinary tract infection as a risk factor for autoimmune liver disease: From bench to bedside 

      Smyk, D. S.; Bogdanos, D. P.; Kriese, S.; Billinis, C.; Burroughs, A. K.; Rigopoulou, E. I. (2012)
      Autoimmune liver diseases include autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), and primary sclerosing cholangitis. A variety of environmental and genetic risk factors have been associated with these conditions. ...