Pbc overlap syndrome

    • [PDF File]Differentiating between autoimmune hepatitis, PBC and ...

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      Differentiating between autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis and overlap syndrome Tools are used to differentiate History, lab pattern, autoantibodies, biopsy Clinical course Clinical suspicions is most important step in the differentiation! Title: Differentiating between autoimmune hepatitis, PBC and overlap syndrome


    • [PDF File]Report of two overlap syndrome cases with autoimmune ...

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      Whether or not PBC and PSC coexist is controversial (5). Given that both AIH and PBC are chronic progressive diseases, and that the identification of cases of OS is impor-tant for therapeutic strategy (13), we have described the cases of two patients from our Department of Hepatology who were both diagnosed with AIH-PBC Overlap Syndrome.


    • Prevalence of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis–Autoimmune ...

      Criteria to diagnose the overlap syndrome. By using these cri-teria, Poupon et al9 reported a 14% prevalence rate of the overlap syndrome in a cohort of 282 PBC patients seen in a Paris hepatology clinic from 1990 to 2004. These criteria re-cently were validated by Kuiper et al.3 In a retrospective analysis of 134 PBC, AIH, and overlap syndrome ...


    • [PDF File]Overlap Syndrome : Autoimmune Hepatitis with Primary ...

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      Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) are the three major immune disorders of the liver. The coexistence of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) occurring simultaneously has been called “overlap syndrome”. Overlap


    • Overlap Syndrome of Autoimmune Hepatitis and Primary ...

      PBC-AIH overlap is the most commonly described overlap syndrome, but the term can also be used in reference to overlap of PSC and AIH.3 Although there is no formal defi-nition of what constitutes PBC-AIH overlap syndrome, the term is typically used to describe patientswith clinical features of both antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA)-pos-


    • A Case of Reynolds Syndrome: Scleroderma and Primary ...

      The association between PBC and other autoimmune conditions, such as Sjögren’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthri-tis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or systemic sclerosis occurs in 84% of cases [1, 2, 6-10]. The overlap of lcSSc and PBC is known as Reynolds syndrome, after the lead author of an article published in 1971 [11]. The authors report a patient


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      have less severe forms of the AIH-PBC overlap syndrome, and they should not be excluded from the diagnosis.1,2 The diagnosis of the overlap syndrome of AIH and PSC requires features of AIH, an absence of anti-mitochondrial antibodies (AMAs), and an abnormal cholangiogram with focal bile duct strictures and dilations typical of PSC1,2 (Table 1).


    • [PDF File]PBC/AIH variant/“overlap” syndrome

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      • Patients with a suspected variant/”overlap” syndrome of PBC should receive a complete diagnostic work-up including biochemistry, serology and liver biopsy • Patients with variant syndromes of PBC should be treated with a combination of UDCA and immunosuppression analogous to …



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