EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Autoimmune hepatitis
4 Σεπτεμβρίου 2015
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) was the first liver disease for which an effective therapeutic intervention, corticosteroid treatment, was convincingly demonstrated in controlled clinical trials. However, 50 years later AIH still remains a major diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. There are two major reasons for this apparent contradiction: Firstly, AIH is a relatively rare disease. Secondly, AIH is a very heterogeneous disease.
