Auto-anticorps et pathologies hépatiques

The diagnosis of autoimmune liver diseases (primary biliary cirrhosis, autoimmune hepatitis and less primary sclerosing cholangitis) can be made by assaying specific autoantibodies in the serum. A review is presented of these antibodies, the methods used to detect them, and the antigens identified to date. Hepatitis C virus infection, drug-induced liver injury and liver allograft rejection, are also discussed.