. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 5.

Published in final edited form as: J Autoimmun. 2010 Jul 16;35(3):176–180. doi: 10.1016/j.jaut.2010.06.004

Table 1.

Clinical, biochemical and serological characteristics of PBC patients.

	AMA+	AMA−	All PBC patients
Number of subjects	11	4	15
Mean age (years)	68 (42–80)	64 (46–75)	67 (42–80)
Duration of disease (years)	14 (4–28)	15 (4–28)	14 (4–28)
Liver cirrhosis (%)	8 (53)	4 (27)	12 (80)
Total bilirubin (mg/dl) (n.v. < 1.0)	0.61 ± 0.11	0.77 ± 0.29	0.66 ± 0.18
Alkaline phosphatase (IU/l) (n.v. < 279)	294 ± 175	736 ± 400	412 ± 311
Alanine aminotransferase (U/l) (n.v. < 50)	30 ± 6	59 ± 27	38 ± 19
Albumin (g/dl) (n.v. > 3,5)	4.41 ± 0.58	4.32 ± 0.18	4.39 ± 0.50
IgG (mg/dl) (n.v. < 1700)	1134 ± 179	1295 ± 134	1177 ± 180
IgM (mg/dl) (n.v. < 280)	289 ± 178	245 ± 109	277 ± 160

Mean values ± standard deviation unless otherwise stated.