In hepatology, the term overlap syndrome describes variant forms of the major hepatobiliary autoimmune diseases, autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), and primary sclerosing ...
A series of case studies reveals the importance of early diagnosis and involvement of special teams of clinicians when dealing with potential cases of overlap syndrome, which encompasses myocarditis, ...
Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) is being used for severe life-threatening autoimmune diseases (ADs). 1 Beneficial responses to AHSCT have been attributed to the high levels ...
The proportion of patients with ACOS among individuals with existing COPD is unclear, as it depends very much on the applied defining criteria, but has been reported to be between 15 and 60%. 13–15 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Obstructive sleep apnea and COPD overlap syndrome is common and is associated with worse outcomes, poorer ...
Using patient-reported outcomes and data on healthcare utilization, researchers from the Yale School of Medicine have been able to compare the health burden of asthma—COPD overlap syndrome with asthma ...
Due to the extremely rare overlap of mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome type 3 and pediatric hepatocellular carcinoma, the case presents daunting therapeutic challenges.
In recent years, doctors across India are seeing a growing number of patients who arrive with a cluster of vague but distressing symptoms. Weeks of ongoing fatigue, recurring headaches, stomach upset, ...
Reports of a Kawasaki-like disease in children following infection with SARS-CoV-2 eventually led to the development of an official diagnosis: multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).
Semin Liver Dis. 2005;25(3):311-320. At present, it remains unclear whether AIH-PBC overlap syndromes represent (1) a hepatitic form of PBC determined by the genetic susceptibility of the patient; (2) ...