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Autoimmune Hepatitis with Anti Centromere Antibodies

We present the case report of a 49-year-old type 2 diabetes mellitus patient presenting with abdominal pain and black stool for 15 days. A proper workup of laboratory investigations helped us diagnose autoimmune hepatitis with anticentromere antibodies. The authors would like to highlight that scree...

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Autores principales: Lodh, Moushumi, Pradhan, Debkant, Parida, Ashok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4207494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25379307
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/742080
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description We present the case report of a 49-year-old type 2 diabetes mellitus patient presenting with abdominal pain and black stool for 15 days. A proper workup of laboratory investigations helped us diagnose autoimmune hepatitis with anticentromere antibodies. The authors would like to highlight that screening AIH patients for anticentromere antibody is not mandatory but can be considered, especially in the presence of disease-related symptomatology for quicker, more accurate diagnosis and optimum management.
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spelling pubmed-42074942014-11-06 Autoimmune Hepatitis with Anti Centromere Antibodies Lodh, Moushumi Pradhan, Debkant Parida, Ashok Case Reports Immunol Case Report We present the case report of a 49-year-old type 2 diabetes mellitus patient presenting with abdominal pain and black stool for 15 days. A proper workup of laboratory investigations helped us diagnose autoimmune hepatitis with anticentromere antibodies. The authors would like to highlight that screening AIH patients for anticentromere antibody is not mandatory but can be considered, especially in the presence of disease-related symptomatology for quicker, more accurate diagnosis and optimum management. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4207494/ /pubmed/25379307 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/742080 Text en Copyright © 2013 Moushumi Lodh et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Autoimmune Hepatitis with Anti Centromere Antibodies
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title_full_unstemmed Autoimmune Hepatitis with Anti Centromere Antibodies
title_short Autoimmune Hepatitis with Anti Centromere Antibodies
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4207494/
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