Four cases of autoimmune cholangitis.
- Author:
Seung Kyu CHUNG
1
;
Jae Young JANG
;
Soung Won JEONG
;
Chan Sup SHIM
;
Boo Sung KIM
;
Yoon Mi JEEN
;
So Young JIN
Author Information
1. Digestive Disease Research Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. jyjang@hosp.sch.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Autoimmune hepatitis;
Primary biliary cirrhosis
- MeSH:
Antibodies;
Antibodies, Antinuclear;
Cholangitis;
Hepatitis, Autoimmune;
Humans;
Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
2009;77(6):750-754
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Autoimmune cholangitis is a disease with clinicopathologic features of primary biliary cirrhosis without antimitochondrial antibodies and, frequently, with high antinuclear antibody titers. Alternative terms have been suggested, including antimitochondrial antibody-negative primary biliary cirrhosis, immunocholangitis, autoimmune cholangiopathy, and autoimmune hepatobiliary overlap syndrome type 1. The question of whether autoimmune cholangitis is distinct from primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune hepatitis or is an antimitochondrial antibody-negative variant of primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune hepatitis is controversial. This case report describes the clinical, immunohistochemical, and pathological findings in four patients with autoimmune cholangitis and reviews the literature.
