Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
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Clinic
- PBC is a chronic and slowly progressive cholestatic liver disease of autoimmune etiology
- It is characterized by injury of the intrahepatic bile ducts that may eventually lead to liver failure
- PBC is associated with other autoimmune diseases such as Sjogren's syndrome, scleroderma, Raynaud's phenomenon and CREST syndrome. [1]
- ↑ Kumagi, T., Heathcote, E. Primary biliary cirrhosis. Orphanet J Rare Dis 3, 1 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1186/1750-1172-3-1