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Epigenetic considerations and the clinical reevaluation of the overlap syndrome between primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune hepatitis.

Abstract：

:Epigenetic changes are of crucial importance in the etiopathogenesis of autoimmune liver diseases. Among these, there is limited agreement on the definitions and treatment of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) overlap syndromes, we evaluated a large series of consecutive patients with PBC (n = 565) and AIH (n = 196) to identify a group of patients with corticosteroid-responsive PBC-AIH overlap syndrome. Within this series, a total of 490 patients were biopsied based upon staging or diagnostic needs. Review of the biopsies in conjunction with the International AIH Group criteria identified 80 patients with suspected overlap syndrome and 52 patients agreed to participate in the study and were prospectively treated with corticosteroids. Of these, 40/52 (77%) achieved a complete biochemical response (i.e. normal ALT, AST, and IgG) within 12 months of treatment. A survey of pre-treatment characteristics of the 40 responders revealed more severe interface hepatitis. Serum IgG levels ≥1.3x the upper limit of normal had 60% sensitivity and 97% specificity rates for steroid-responsiveness while the use of a higher threshold (≥2.0x) reduced sensitivity to 10%. When the Paris criteria for PBC-AIH were applied to the steroid-responsive patients, 29/40 (73%) cases fulfilled at least two of the three Paris criteria. Applying the recently designed simplified IAIHG scoring system, 35/40 (88%) had a "definite" diagnosis of AIH. This study supports the hypothesis that a complete response to corticosteroids may denote a variant of a PBC-AIH overlap syndrome which could be identified prior to treatment by modified Paris criteria in concert with the simplified IAIHG scoring system.

journal_name

J Autoimmun

journal_title

Journal of autoimmunity

authors

Wang Q,Selmi C,Zhou X,Qiu D,Li Z,Miao Q,Chen X,Wang J,Krawitt EL,Gershwin ME,Han Y,Ma X

doi

10.1016/j.jaut.2012.10.004

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-03-01 00:00:00

pages

140-5

eissn

0896-8411

issn

1095-9157

pii

S0896-8411(12)00131-X

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Epigenetic considerations and the clinical reevaluation of the overlap syndrome between primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune hepatitis.