PRIMARY BILIARY-CIRRHOSIS - NATURAL-HISTORY
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 73 (3) , 223-226
Abstract
All patients seen with primary biliary cirrhosis during this decade were reviewed. Sixty percent were diagnosed during the earliest asymptomatic stage of this illness and only 20% progressed symptomatically during a mean follow-up period of 52 mo. Those patients presenting with persistent jaundice followed a classic downhill course. These data establish the previously predicted trend toward earlier diagnosis and raise questions about the concept of universal progression of this disease and its time cause.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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