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ArticleDigestive diseases and sciences2009

Clinical characteristics of patients with hepatitis C virus-related chronic liver disease seropositive for anticentromere antibody.

Takashi Himoto, Seiji Nakai, Fumihiko Kinekawa, Hirohito Yoneyama, Akihiro Deguchi, Kazutaka Kurokochi, Tsutomu Masaki, Shoichi Senda, Reiji Haba, Seishiro Watanabe and 2 more

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Article in Digestive diseases and sciences, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Takashi HimotoDepartment of Gastroenterology and Neurology, Kagawa University School of Medicine, Kagawa, Japan. thimoto@med.kagawa-u.ac.jp
Seiji Nakai
Fumihiko Kinekawa
Hirohito Yoneyama
Akihiro Deguchi
Kazutaka Kurokochi
Tsutomu Masaki
Shoichi Senda
Reiji Haba
Seishiro Watanabe
Mikio Nishioka
Shigeki Kuriyama
Kagawa University · JPKagawa Prefectural Central Hospital · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The association between anticentromere antibody (ACA) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains unclear. We subjected eight patients with HCV-related chronic liver disease (CLD) seropositive for ACA to a battery of clinical and laboratory tests. The patient cohort was dominated by females, and four of the eight (50%) patients had a concomitant autoimmune disease. All of the patients had high titers of ACA (>or=1:320). The histological activity index scores in chronic hepatitis C (CH-C) patients with ACA were significantly higher than those in CH-C patients without antinuclear antibody (ANA) (12.8 +/- 1.8 vs. 8.3 +/- 4.5, P = 0.0372). The frequency of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DR-8 in patients with HCV-related CLD seropositive for ACA was significantly higher than that in patients with CH-C seronegative for ANA (71 vs. 18%, P = 0.0108). These findings suggest that ACA is induced by chronic HCV infection in association with HLA DR-8, and that CH-C patients with ACA exhibit more severe hepatic fibrosis and inflammation than CH-C patients without ANA.

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AgedAged, 80 and overAntibodies, AntinuclearCentromereFemaleHepatitis C, ChronicHLA AntigensHumansLiverMaleMiddle AgedPhenotypeAntibodies, Antinuclearanticentromere antibodyHLA Antigens

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