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Autoimmune hepatitis: a rare cause of acute hepatic failure in male infant

Author(s) -

Madiha Zainab

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

sri lanka journal of child health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153

H-Index - 6

eISSN - 2386-110X

pISSN - 1391-5452

DOI - 10.4038/sljch.v48i2.8716

Subject(s) - medical journal , sri lanka , medicine , scopus , publishing , transparency (behavior) , family medicine , open access publishing , library science , alternative medicine , medline , political science , south asia , law , pathology , ethnology , history , computer science

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the liver of unknown aetiology characterised by circulating autoantibodies, hypergammaglobulinaemia, necroinflammatory changes in liver histology and dramatic response to immunosuppresants. AIH has varied presentations ranging from asymptomatic cases to fulminant forms affecting all age groups from infancy to elderly. Here we report a male infant who presented as acute hepatitis, progressed to fulminant hepatic failure and succumbed.

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