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Autoimmune hepatitis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report

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Modern Rheumatology

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A 48-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of ascites. Laboratory data indicated the presence of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with nephrotic syndrome and elevated hepatic enzymes. Treatment with prednisolone resulted in a marked clinical improvement in renal and liver dysfunction. Histopathologic analysis of renal and liver tissues showed lupus nephritis and liver cirrhosis, respectively. According to the autoimmune hepatitis scoring system, the patient had both SLE and autoimmune hepatitis.

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  1. First Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan

    Satoshi Yamasaki, Keisuke Nakata, Hiroaki Ida, Atsushi Kawakami & Katsumi Eguchi

  2. Nagasaki University School of Health Sciences, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, 852-8520, Japan

    Tomoki Origuchi

  3. Department of Pathology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

    Kan Toriyama

  4. Second Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan

    Takashi Taguchi

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Correspondence to Tomoki Origuchi.

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Yamasaki, S., Origuchi, T., Nakata, K. et al. Autoimmune hepatitis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report. Mod Rheumatol 14, 169–173 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10165-004-0286-5

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