Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 10 , Pages 724-728 , October 2010

Autoimmune hepatitis in children—Impact of cirrhosis at presentation on natural history and long-term outcome

  • Kadakkal R. Radhakrishnan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, A 111, Cleveland, OH 44195, United States
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  • Naim Alkhouri

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, A 111, Cleveland, OH 44195, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 216 444 9000; fax: +1 216 444 2974.
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  • Sarah Worley

      Affiliations

    • Department of Qualitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
    • ,
  • Susana Arrigain

      Affiliations

    • Department of Qualitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
    • ,
  • Vera Hupertz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, A 111, Cleveland, OH 44195, United States
    • ,
  • Marsha Kay

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, A 111, Cleveland, OH 44195, United States
    • ,
  • Lisa Yerian

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomical Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States
    • ,
  • Robert Wyllie

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, A 111, Cleveland, OH 44195, United States
    • ,
  • Ariel E. Feldstein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, A 111, Cleveland, OH 44195, United States
    • Department of Cell Biology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States

Received 27 July 2009 ,Accepted 11 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2010.01.002

Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 10 , Pages 724-728 , October 2010

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