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Popular and unpopular infectious agents linked to primary biliary cirrhosis
(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 ...
Towards systemic sclerosis and away from primary biliary cirrhosis: The case of PTPN22
(2012)
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a chronic cholestatic liver disease characterized by immune-mediated destruction of the small and medium size intrahepatic bile ducts. PBC patients often have concomitant autoimmune ...
Primary biliary cirrhosis associated with systemic sclerosis: Diagnostic and clinical challenges
(2011)
Patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) often have concurrent limited systemic sclerosis (SSc). Conversely, up to one-fourth of SSc patients are positive for PBC-specific antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA). The ...
Molecular diagnostics of primary billary cirrhosis
(2008)
Background: Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an autoimmune liver disease of unknown etiology characterized by the presence of antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA) in 90 - 95% of patients. AMA are directed against members ...