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

• मुख्य लेखकों: Sheng-Hsiung Yeh (लेखक), Yen-Hsuan Ni (लेखक), Yung-Ming Jeng (लेखक), Huey-Ling Chen (लेखक), Jia-Feng Wu (लेखक), Mei-Hwei Chang (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Elsevier, 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: 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...