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Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a life-threatening infection caused by Leishmania species. In addition to typical clinical findings as fever, hepatosplenomegaly, and cachexia, VL is associated with autoimmune phenomena. To date,...
Min JK, Park KS, Yu WJ, Lee YS, Park SM, Park SH, Cho CS, Kim HY
KMID: 759497
Korean J Intern Med.
2000 Jan;15(1):89-92.
We report a 46-year-old woman with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) presenting
with Sjogren's syndrome and systemic mononuclear inflammatory vasculopathy.
Biopsy specimens of sural nerve showed findings consistent with vasculitic
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Sjogren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by a lymphocytic infiltration of the salivary and lacrimal glands leading to a progressive destruction of these glands due...
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Overlap syndrome of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) (AIH-PBC overlap syndrome) is a rare disease that has not been clearly characterized in Korean patients. This study...