Sentences with phrase «with autoimmune hepatitis»

Then also diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis.

«While early diagnosis along with optimal medical therapy offers patients with autoimmune hepatitis a good prognosis, the disease can be very severe in some cases,» explains lead author Dr. Arndt Vogel from Hannover Medical School in Hannover, Germany.

Patients diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis in childhood had a greater relapse risk, higher risk of needing a liver transplant, and a reduced life expectancy.

New research reports that cirrhosis at first diagnosis and antibodies for the soluble liver antigen / liver pancreas antigen (SLA / LP) are major risk factors for poor short - and long - term outcome in patients with autoimmune hepatitis.

Not exact matches

People with IBD are also at an increased risk for certain liver diseases, such as primary sclerosing cholangitis (found primarily in those with ulcerative colitis), autoimmune hepatitis, and primary biliary cirrhosis.

There are several other autoimmune diseases that have been associated with hashimoto thyroiditis such as addison's disease, diabetes mellitus, hyogonadism, pernicious anaemia, alopecia areata, chronic active hepatitis, giant cell arteritis, primary billary cirrhosis, rheumatoid arthritis, vitiligo and others.

With the exception of very specific cases of copper accumulation in the liver (specific to only a few breeds) and aflatoxins accumulating from eating moldy corn (also a rare occurrence), the vast majority of case of chronic active hepatitis in dogs are autoimmune in origin.