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. 1973 May;14(5):360–364. doi: 10.1136/gut.14.5.360

Serum autoantibodies and immunoglobulins in hepatitis-associated antigen (HAA)-positive and -negative liver disease

F J Dudley, M J O'Shea, A Ajdukiewicz, S Sherlock
PMCID: PMC1412696  PMID: 4197747

Abstract

Serum immunoglobulin G, A, and M and serum antinuclear, mitochondrial, and smooth muscle antibody have been measured in 223 patients with hepatitis-associated antigen (HAA)-positive and -negative acute and chronic liver disease. In patients with acute hepatitis, chronic persistent hepatitis, and primary liver cell carcinoma, these indices failed to show any significant differences. However, in the group with chronic aggressive hepatitis the patients who were HAA negative had significantly higher levels of serum IgG, much higher titres of smooth muscle antibody, and often antinuclear and mitochondrial antibodies which were not found in the HAA-positive patients from this group. This suggests that different pathogenic mechanisms may be operative in HAA-positive and -negative chronic aggressive hepatitis.

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