Autoimmune Hepatitis
Autoimmune hepatitis is an uncommon cause of chronic hepatitis (persistent liver inflammation). The cause is not known. If left untreated, the inflammation causes cirrhosis (scarring of the liver).
Autoimmune hepatitis
Overview
Autoimmune hepatitis is a disease in which the body's immune system attacks liver cells. This immune response causes inflammation of the liver, also called hepatitis.
Autoimmune hepatitis
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Autoimmune hepatitis: A disease in which the body's immune system attacks liver cells, causing inflammation of the liver (hepatitis).
Autoimmune Hepatitis
Overview, Causes, & Risk Factors
Symptoms & Signs
Diagnosis & Tests
Prevention & Expectations
Treatment & Monitoring
Attribution ...
How is autoimmune hepatitis treated?
Treatment works best when autoimmune hepatitis is diagnosed early. With proper treatment, autoimmune hepatitis can usually be controlled.
Autoimmune hepatitis is inflammation of the liver that occurs when immune cells mistake the liver's normal cells for harmful invaders and attack them.
Causes
This disease is associated with other autoimmune diseases, including: ...
Autoimmune hepatitis
Hepatitis
Patient information
Patient information: Autoimmune hepatitis ...
Autoimmune hepatitis is a fairly rare condition. It affects both men and women, but it's more common in women.
Types of autoimmune hepatitis ...
Autoimmune hepatitis is inflammation of the liver caused by immune cells that mistake the liver's normal cells as harmful invaders.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors: ...
Autoimmune Hepatitis. Patients with autoimmune hepatitis who have mild symptoms and slight inflammation of the liver do not require any treatment except to relieve symptoms. They should be monitored, however, for any signs of disease progression.
Autoimmune hepatitis. This disease appears to be caused by the immune system attacking the liver and causing inflammation, damage, and eventually scarring and cirrhosis.
Autoimmune hepatitis
Autoimmune hepatitis is a very rare cause of chronic (long-term) hepatitis. The white blood cells attack the liver, causing chronic inflammation and damage. This can lead to more serious problems, such as liver failure.
Autoimmune Hepatitis
Autoimmune hepatitis, like other autoimmune disorders, develops when a misdirected immune system attacks the body's own cells and organs.
Autoimmune hepatitis
Viral Hepatitis
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Autoimmune hepatitis. In this disorder, the body's immune system attacks liver cells, causing inflammation similar to the inflammation that occurs in viral hepatitis.
Autoimmune hepatitis
Introduction
In autoimmune hepatitis, your body's immune system attacks your liver.
Autoimmune hepatitis is caused by a problem with the immune system.
Inherited diseases including Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, hemochromatosis, Wilson's disease, galactosemia, and glycogen storage diseases interfere with the way the liver produces, ...
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Autoimmune hepatitis
Hepatitis due to the effects of drugs (drug-induced hepatitis)
Jaundice caused by reduced oxygen or blood flow to the liver (ischemic hepatitis) ...
autoimmune hepatitis - liver disease caused when the body's immune system destroys liver cells for no known reason.
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Autoimmune hepatitis - chronic inflammation of the liver, resulting in liver cell damage and destruction
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Autoimmune hepatitis is similiar to viral hepatitis, a disease of the liver. It can be an acute disease that kills over a third of its victims within six months, it can persist for years, or it can return periodically.
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liver damage from overdose of medications toxic to the liver
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Autoimmune hepatitis
Chronic persistent hepatitis
Drug-induced hepatitis
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- Autoimmune Hepatitis
Symptoms and signs
They are unsteady and of variable intensity. Some are common to all hepatitis: jaundice, dark urine, discolored stools, nausea, liver sensitive to touch.
Meaning: Autoimmune Hepatitis
Other abbreviations from this category
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Young women with autoimmune hepatitis may not have menstrual periods (amenorrhea) and may experience acne, joint pain, lung scarring, inflammation of the thyroid gland and kidneys, and anemia.
Viral hepatitis B
Autoimmune hepatitis
Hemochromatosis (iron overload)
Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
Wilson’s Disease
Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
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Autoimmune Hepatitis
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Autoimmune hepatitis, in which the body’s immune system turns against the liver
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Autoimmune hepatitis. This is a disease in which a number of liver cells are destroyed by the patient's own immune system. Autoimmune hepatitis can also sometimes occur as acute hepatitis. The cause is unknown.
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Understanding Autoimmunity
Autoimmunity is when your immune system attacks itself.
Hepatitis (Viral hepatitis, Autoimmune hepatitis, Alcoholic hepatitis) Â- Cirrhosis (PBC) Â- Fatty liver (NASH) Â- vascular (Budd-Chiari syndrome, Hepatic veno-occlusive disease, Portal hypertension, Nutmeg liver) Â- Alcoholic liver disease Â- Liver ...
In addition, a case of PAS III complicated with autoimmune hepatitis was reported from Japan.
Autoimmune Hepatitis
Autoimmune Hepatitis
Autoimmune Thyroid Diseases
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Autosomal Dominant: Marfan Syndrome
Autosomal Recessive: Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell Anemia, Tay Sachs Disease
Avascular Necrosis
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Current absolute contraindications to combination therapy include a known hypersensitivity to pegylated interferon and/or ribavirin, autoimmune hepatitis, decompensated liver disease, pregnant women, ...
Autoimmune Opens New Window diseases, such as autoimmune hepatitis or primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) Opens New Window.
Blocked bile ducts.
If these tests show signs of liver inflammation or liver failure, you will undergo tests for hepatitis B and C and for antibodies that signal autoimmune hepatitis.
Autoimmune diseases, such as autoimmune hepatitis or primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). In some people, the immune system attacks the liver, causing inflammation that leads to cirrhosis.
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
Autoimmune hepatitis
Drug-induced cholestasis (bile pools in the liver because of the effects of drugs)
Drug-induced hepatitis (hepatitis triggered by medications) ...
Autoimmune hepatitis
Malaria
Biliary atresia
Hemolytic anemia
Disorders present since birth that cause problems processing bilirubin such as Gibert's syndrome, Dubin-Johnson syndrome, Rotor's syndrome or Crigler-Najjar syndrome ...
Inflammatory hepatitis (viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, toxic hepatic injury)
Alcoholic liver disease
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Excessive consumption of alcohol
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Autoimmune hepatitis
Inherited diseases: ...
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5. Immunoglobulins (IgA, IgG, IgM) in acute hepatitis are normal or minimally increased. A moderate increase is seen in chronic active or autoimmune hepatitis. Indices are useful in monitoring response to immunotherapy.
Vascular - veno-occlusive disease of the liver
Others - primary biliary cirrhosis, haematochromatosis, autoimmune hepatitis, alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency, Wilson's disease, fatty liver of pregnancy, malignancy.
These rare conditions include autoimmune hepatitis and primary biliary cirrhosis (mostly women affected) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (more common in men).
Autoimmune Hepatitis see Liver disease
Autoimmune Hypothyroidism see Thyroid disorders
Autoimmune Neutropenia see Neutropenia (Severe Chronic)
Autosomal Dominant Kidney disease see Polycystic Kidney disease ...
 See also: Hepatitis, Symptom, Cirrhosis, Cancer, Liver disease
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