Emerging Importance of Autoimmune Hepatitis in Children in Taiwan, an Endemic Area for Viral Hepatitis

• Main Authors: Sheng-Hsiung Yeh (Author), Yen-Hsuan Ni (Author), Yung-Ming Jeng (Author), Huey-Ling Chen (Author), Jia-Feng Wu (Author), Mei-Hwei Chang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Untreated autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) can develop into liver cirrhosis, with potentially fatal outcomes. Viral hepatitis in children was endemic in Taiwan before universal hepatitis B vaccination, but AIH has rarely been reported in Taiwanese children. We performed this retrospective study to charact...