Distinct characteristics of various autoimmune liver diseases: A 22-year hospital-based study in Taiwan

Ming Ling Chang*, Puo Hsien Le, Wei Ting Chen, Tai Di Chen, Chung Wei Su, Cheng Jen Chen, Cheng Yu Lin, Chi Huan Wu, Chia Jung Kuo, Kei Feng Sung, Rong Nan Chien

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Background and Aim: The characteristics of autoimmune liver diseases (AILDs), including primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), and PBC-AIH overlap syndrome (OS), have rarely been investigated and compared in Asia. Methods: At the Taiwan tertiary referral center, 330 PBC patients (87% treated with ursodeoxycholic acid [UDCA]), 143 AIH patients (94.4% treated with immunosuppressive therapy [IST]) and 21 PBC-AIH OS patients (85.7% treated with UDCA and IST) were enrolled. Results: Compared with AIH patients, PBC patients were older at baseline and had greater female-to-male sex ratios, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and γ-glutamyl transferase (γ-GT) levels, and liver cirrhosis (LC), dyslipidemia, and hepatic and cardiometabolic complication rates. PBC patients had the lowest transaminase levels, whereas AIH patients had the highest transaminase levels. PBC patients had greater 22-year all-cause mortality and liver transplantation (ACMaLT) (43.5 vs 25.4%, P = 0.004), LC (75 vs 58.5%, P < 0.01), dyslipidemia (54.4 vs 45.9%, P = 0.001), and cerebrovascular accident (11.3 vs 0.8%, P = 0.019) cumulative incidences (CIs) than did AIH patients; PBC-AIH OS patients had greater systemic lupus erythematosus (28.9 vs 8.9%, P = 0.009) CI than did PBC patients. Baseline ALP (hazard ratio: 1.001), albumin (0.514), platelet count (0.997), and LC (3.438) were associated with ACMaLT; age (1.110), albumin (0.350), cirrhosis (46.219), and hepatitis C virus antibody positivity (5.068) were associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); and female sex (2.183) and body mass index (1.054) were associated with autoimmune diseases. Conclusions: Compared with AIH patients, PBC patients had greater cardiometabolic CI, and ACMaLT CI, which was associated with cholestasis, liver functional reserve and LC. Older AILD patients with LC and females with obesity demand special caution for the development of HCC and extrahepatic autoimmune diseases, respectively.

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期刊Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)
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出版狀態待刊 - 2024
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