Positive antimitochondrial antibody but normal alkaline phosphatase: Is this primary biliary cirrhosis?

✍ Scribed by Harriet C. Mitchison; Margaret F. Bassendine; Alex Hendrick; Mark K. Bennett; Graham Bird; Alexander J. Watson; Professor Oliver F. W. James

• Book ID: 102852182
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 747 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0270-9139
• DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840060609

✦ Synopsis

Twenty-nine patients with a positive antimitochondrial antibody titer 21/40, who were detected during screening for other autoimmune disease, are deacribed who had a normal serum bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase and transaminase and who had no symptoms of liver disease at presentation. Liver biopsies in 12 of the 29