Autoimmune Hepatitis—Challenging Diagnosis

The incidence of Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH) increases worldwide. If undiagnosed, it may progress end-stage liver disease. Unfortunately, there is no characteristic clinical presentation of this disease, which makes the illness hard to recognize. A case report illustrates the difficulties of diagnosi...

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Autores principales: Mroskowiak, Aleksandra, Suleja, Agata, Stec, Maria, Kuczmik, Wiktoria, Migacz, Maciej, Holecki, Michał
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35888614
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina58070896
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author Mroskowiak, Aleksandra
Suleja, Agata
Stec, Maria
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Migacz, Maciej
Holecki, Michał
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description The incidence of Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH) increases worldwide. If undiagnosed, it may progress end-stage liver disease. Unfortunately, there is no characteristic clinical presentation of this disease, which makes the illness hard to recognize. A case report illustrates the difficulties of diagnosing the patient during his two hospitalizations and his final treatment with prednisolone which improved the patient’s condition.
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spelling pubmed-93180732022-07-27 Autoimmune Hepatitis—Challenging Diagnosis Mroskowiak, Aleksandra Suleja, Agata Stec, Maria Kuczmik, Wiktoria Migacz, Maciej Holecki, Michał Medicina (Kaunas) Case Report The incidence of Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH) increases worldwide. If undiagnosed, it may progress end-stage liver disease. Unfortunately, there is no characteristic clinical presentation of this disease, which makes the illness hard to recognize. A case report illustrates the difficulties of diagnosing the patient during his two hospitalizations and his final treatment with prednisolone which improved the patient’s condition. MDPI 2022-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9318073/ /pubmed/35888614 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina58070896 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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