Autoimmune liver disease and rheumatic manifestations

Abstract

Clinical phenotypes of autoimmune hepatitis commonly include rheumatic manifestations that can mask the liver disease. Defects in counter-regulatory functions enhance cell-mediated cytotoxicity, and pharmacological interventions that promise site-specific actions affecting immunocyte differentiation and proliferation are feasible.

Part of CIRS Nexus · Curated by Lauren Lowenstein, The Biotoxin Lady