Features of Autoimmune Hepatitis & Sclerosing Cholangitis Overlap (AIH-PSC) Syndrome
Purpose: | To evaluate a patient with liver disease for features suggesting the AIH-PSC overlap syndrome. |
Specialty: | Gastroenterology Immunology/Rheumatology |
Objective: | clinical diagnosis, including family history for genetics, differential diagnosis and mimics, red flags |
ICD-10: | K75.4, K83.0 |
Description: | Some patients may show features of both autoimmune hepatitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis (AIH-PSC overlap syndrome). If a person with primary sclerosing cholangitis shows signs of a hepatitis, or if a person with autoimmune hepatitis appears cholestatic, then the AIH-PSC overlap syndrome should be considered. |
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