International Autoimmune Hepatitis Group Report: review of criteria for diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis

Following the identification of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in 1989 (1.Choo Q-L Kuo G Weiner AJ Overby LR Bradley DW Houghton M Isolation of a cDNA clone derived from a blood-borne non-A, non-B viral hepatitis genome.Science. 1989; 244: 359-362Crossref PubMed Scopus (6209) Google Scholar), there was considerable uncertainty about criteria for diagnosis of the liver disorder which was then known as autoimmune chronic active hepatitis. In 1992, a...