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Type 2 Autoimmune Hepatitis in a Male Patient with a Rare Complication of Vasculitis

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is chronic inflammation of hepatocytes due to immune cells attacking the patient’s own hepatocytes, histologically characterized by interface hepatitis. The disease can be serious, and if left untreated, it can lead to cirrhosis of the liver and eventual liver failure. It...

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Autores principales: Shahid, Ashar, Punshi, Avinash, Ahmed Khan, Bilal, Nazir, Maaz Bin, Ullah, Hidayat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7170026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32328366
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7354
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author Shahid, Ashar
Punshi, Avinash
Ahmed Khan, Bilal
Nazir, Maaz Bin
Ullah, Hidayat
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Punshi, Avinash
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Ullah, Hidayat
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description Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is chronic inflammation of hepatocytes due to immune cells attacking the patient’s own hepatocytes, histologically characterized by interface hepatitis. The disease can be serious, and if left untreated, it can lead to cirrhosis of the liver and eventual liver failure. It occurs more frequently in females. The standard treatment for AIH includes corticosteroids. There are two main treatment regimens, which include either prednisolone alone or prednisone and azathioprine. Although, liver transplantation is certainly the treatment of choice, it has not yet been established on a large scale worldwide. We present here the case of a 22-year-old male, with autoimmune hepatitis and unspecified vasculitis.
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spelling pubmed-71700262020-04-23 Type 2 Autoimmune Hepatitis in a Male Patient with a Rare Complication of Vasculitis Shahid, Ashar Punshi, Avinash Ahmed Khan, Bilal Nazir, Maaz Bin Ullah, Hidayat Cureus Internal Medicine Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is chronic inflammation of hepatocytes due to immune cells attacking the patient’s own hepatocytes, histologically characterized by interface hepatitis. The disease can be serious, and if left untreated, it can lead to cirrhosis of the liver and eventual liver failure. It occurs more frequently in females. The standard treatment for AIH includes corticosteroids. There are two main treatment regimens, which include either prednisolone alone or prednisone and azathioprine. Although, liver transplantation is certainly the treatment of choice, it has not yet been established on a large scale worldwide. We present here the case of a 22-year-old male, with autoimmune hepatitis and unspecified vasculitis. Cureus 2020-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7170026/ /pubmed/32328366 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7354 Text en Copyright © 2020, Shahid et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Shahid, Ashar
Punshi, Avinash
Ahmed Khan, Bilal
Nazir, Maaz Bin
Ullah, Hidayat
Type 2 Autoimmune Hepatitis in a Male Patient with a Rare Complication of Vasculitis
title Type 2 Autoimmune Hepatitis in a Male Patient with a Rare Complication of Vasculitis
title_full Type 2 Autoimmune Hepatitis in a Male Patient with a Rare Complication of Vasculitis
title_fullStr Type 2 Autoimmune Hepatitis in a Male Patient with a Rare Complication of Vasculitis
title_full_unstemmed Type 2 Autoimmune Hepatitis in a Male Patient with a Rare Complication of Vasculitis
title_short Type 2 Autoimmune Hepatitis in a Male Patient with a Rare Complication of Vasculitis
title_sort type 2 autoimmune hepatitis in a male patient with a rare complication of vasculitis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7170026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32328366
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7354
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