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contribute to this impression [52]. Patients can be asymptomatic, referred to a phy-
sician because of incidental identication of an abnormal liver prole or they can
present with fatigue, joint pains, and some signs of liver disease in association
withan abnormal liver prole suggestive of hepatocellular injury. A history of inter-
mittently abnormal liver prole can be identied sometimes. Hypergammaglobulinemia
is a characteristic laboratory nding in AIH.In approximately a third of patients,
AIH can present as fulminant hepatitis and laboratory ndings not suggestive of that
disease, including normal IgG and total serum gammaglobulin concentrations and
negative or low titers of ANA.In these patients, liver histology is useful; however,
expertise in obtaining a liver biopsy, usually transjugularly, is necessary to get liver
tissue in this type of patient. Liver histology tends to show centrilobular massive
and submassive necrosis [53].
As hepatitis, including AIH, can be triggered by some medications, information
on drug intake or herbal preparations must be sought, and the suspected triggering
agent stopped. Drug-induced hepatitis can have features of AIH; a diagnosis of AIH
has to be considered in all cases, and also, the suspected agent has to be stopped
immediately. In general, drug-induced hepatitis tends to resolve in association with
the discontinuation of the medication; however, treatment with corticosteroids is
indicated in patients who present with orid features of both diseases as, indeed,
AIH may be part of the pathogenetic process in some patients. Histologically, AIH
and drug-induced hepatitis have similar features. At presentation, cirrhosis was not
found in any of the patients with drug-induced AIH in a retrospective study that
included 261 patients, with a prevalence of nine percent [54]. However, it was pres-
ent in twenty percent of the patients with AIH proper [54]. Minocycline and nitro-
furantoin were identied as the most common causes of drug-induced AIH in this
study [54]. Only two patients were not treated with corticosteroids, and of those
treated, only one patient with drug-induced AIH did not have a complete response
to treatment. In patients in whom corticosteroids were discontinued, hepatitis had
not recurred during a median follow up of 36 months; however, it did recur in
patients with AIH proper [54]. This natural history was interpreted to suggest that
the drug-induced AIH was indeed induced by the drug and not by an underlying
process of immune-mediated inammation [54].
Physical Examination
On physical examination, patients may or may not exhibit signs suggestive of liver
disease, including spider angiomata, jaundice, and ascites. Patients with AIH pre-
senting with fulminant liver failure display signs of hepatic encephalopathy.
The common laboratory ndings are increased serum activity of transaminases
(alanine and aspartate), normal or increased serum concentration of bilirubin, and
modestly increased activity of AP and GGTP. The presence of autoantibodies, as
discussed below, is characteristic of autoimmune hepatitis. ANA and ASMA are the
most prevalent antibodies identied in the serum of patients with this disease.
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Hypergammaglobulinemia is also typical of AIH; serum protein electrophoresis dis-
plays a peak in the gamma globulin region, consistent with a high serum concentra-
tion of immunoglobulin gamma.
Autoantibodies
AIH is associated with autoantibodies in most cases, although their absence does
not exclude the diagnosis in patients with other features characteristics of the dis-
ease. AIH type 1 refers to the disease in adults, associated, in general, with antinu-
clear antibodies (ANA) directed to centromere, ribonucleoproteins, and
ribonucleoprotein complexes [55–57] and anti-smooth muscle antibodies (ASMA),
directed to actin and other nonactin cellular components [58]. AIH type 2 is charac-
terized by the presence of anti-LKM antibodies, predominantly in children [56].
The occurrence of anti-LKM, together with ANA and anti-SMA, is reported as less
than 4% of patients with AIH. Other autoantibodies can be found in the serum of
patients with AIH and, when present, help to conrm the diagnosis in atypical cases,
including antibodies to soluble liver antigen (anti-SLA) [59] and antibodies to liver
cytosol type 1 (anti-LC1) (Table4.1).
Table 4.1 Autoantibodies in autoimmune hepatitis
Type of
antibody Antigen
Indirect
immunouorescence
characteristics
Reported clinical
relevance References
Antinuclear Centromere,
ribonucleoproteins,
and ribonucleoprotein
complexes
Homogenous or
speckled nuclear
staining of hepatocytes
Characterizes AIH
1, long-term
prognosis is better
than in
seronegative,
associated with
HLA-DR4
[
55]
Anti-double
stranded
DNA
Double
stranded-DNA
Stain of kinetoplast
Crithidia luciliae, used
as substrate
Common in ANA
positive AIH 1,
associated with
HLA DR4, may
portend inferior
immediate
response to
steroids
[
57]
Anti-
smooth
muscle
Actin and nonactin
cellular components
including vimentin,
skeletin, tubulin,
desmin
Smooth muscle bers
within blood vessels and
muscularis usually
sought on mucosa of
murine stomach and
kidney
AIH 1 [58]
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Histology
The histological hallmark of AIH is interface hepatitis (Fig.4.1) associated with
conuent hepatic necrosis and bridging brosis[65].The inammatory inltrate of
autoimmune hepatitis is comprised of lymphocytes (Fig. 4.2) and plasma cells
Table 4.1 (continued)
Type of
antibody Antigen
Indirect
immunouorescence
characteristics
Reported clinical
relevance References
Anti-
LKM 1
Anti-
LKM 2
Anti-
LKM 3
Anti-LKM
CYP2D6
CYP2C9
UGT
CYP1A2
Cytoplasm of
hepatocytes and
proximal renal tubules
AIH 2, genetic
predisposition to
HLA-B14, DR3,
and C4A-QO, and
AIH in
association with
APECED
[
56]
SLA Sec synthase N/A Specic for AIH
1, portends
relapse and severe
disease, and
associated with
HLA-DR3 and
DR4
[
59]
LCI 1 FTCD Cytoplasm of
hepatocytes sparing
those surrounding the
central vein
AIH type 2 [
60]
ASGPR Type 2
transmembrane
glycoprotein
expressed on the
hepatocyte membrane
N/A Correlates with
histological
severity
[61]
ANA antinuclear antibodies; Anti-LKM anti-liver kidney microsomes antibodies; SLA soluble liver
antigen; Anti-LC1 anti-liver cytosol antibody; ASGPR anti-asialoglycoprotein receptor antibodies;
CYP cytochrome P 450; UGT Uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase, family of enzymes
that catalyze the covalent addition of glucuronic acid to several lipophilic chemicals; their function
concerns the detoxication of numerous exogenous and endogenous substances by increasing their
polarity, improving their suitability to be excreted in bile or urine[62]; FTCD formiminotransfer-
ase cyclodeaminase enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of histidine to glutamic acid[63]; Anti-
SLA anti-soluble liver antigen antibodies, identied as being the same as anti-liver pancreas
antibodies; Sec synthase a pyridoxal phosphate (PLP)-dependent protein that converts the serine
attached to tRNA [Ser] Sec to Sec to an aminoacrylyl intermediate that serves as the acceptor for
activated selenium; when selenium is donated, selenocysteyl-tRNA[Ser]Sec is formed [64].
Selenocysteyl-tRNA[Ser]Sec is a carrier molecule upon which selenocysteine is biosynthesized
and also, donates selenocysteine, the 21st naturally occurring amino acid of protein, to the forming
polypeptide chain in response to specic UGA codons [
64]; AIH 1 and 2 Autoimmune hepatitis
type 1 and type 2; APECED autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy
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(Fig.4.3) of the CD8 population [65].Lobular inammatory inltrates may be iden-
tied, as well as rosette formation, and even in acute presentation, nodular forma-
tion can be present [52, 65]. The predictive value of periportal plasma cells for
relapse in patients with autoimmune hepatitis is important. Liver histology from
patients who had achieved remission and had been taken off steroids, and subse-
quently had relapsed had, characteristically, plasma cell inltration in the portal
tracts, in contrast to patients who had not relapsed. These results tend to suggest that
liver histology should be reviewed prior to drug discontinuation in patients with
AIH.In addition, a pathogenetic mechanism mediated by plasma cells in patients
who relapsed is suggested[66]. One of the possible mechanisms of disease perpetu-
ation by plasma cells may be their relationship with activated stellate cells, which
Fig. 4.2 Lymphocytes
(arrow) inltrating between
surviving hepatocytes
within the inammatory
inltrate in a case of
autoimmune hepatitis.
Hematoxylin and Eosin,
original magnication 40X
Fig. 4.3 Plasma cells
(arrows) within
inammatory inltrate in a
case of autoimmune
hepatitis. Hematoxylin and
Eosin, original
magnication 40X
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are pivotal in the generation of brosis, and with which they colocalized in an
immunohistochemical study[67]; the number of plasma cells was reported to cor-
relate with stellate cells and brosis scores. After treatment, patients in remission
had a decreased number of plasma cells, hepatic stellate cells, and degree of bro-
sis[66]. Indeed, an immunohistological study of paired biopsies before and after
clinical remission from children with AIH was reported to reveal a decrease in
hepatic stellate cells activation, as evidenced by attenuation of anti-alpha smooth
muscle immunoreactivity, in association with a reduction in inammation score,
although no changes in brosis were documented [68]; these results suggest that a
decrease in hepatic stellate deactivation, in association with treatment, may be asso-
ciated with the halting of brogenic mechanisms.
Emperipolesis is the penetration of a cell by another of a different lineage that
remains intact [65]. It was reported in 65.3% of patients with AIH, from a group of
101, a nding signicantly higher than in disease control liver biopsies, and associ-
ated with higher serum activity of aminotransferases, inammatory activity, and
degree of brosis than in disease control biopsies. CD8 T cells were the majority of
lymphocytes identied in emperipolesis, which was associated with induction of
cleaved caspase-3 expression, and notable in areas of apoptosis, which has sug-
gested that emperipolesis may induce apoptosis, which then may contribute to the
liver injury in AIH [69].
Drug-induced hepatitis and AIH have similar histological features, hence the
importance of a detailed history of medications and over the counter preparations
taken in relationship with the onset of hepatitis. Prominent intra-acinar lymphocyte
inltrate or canalicular cholestasis without portal inammation, rosette formation,
rich portal plasma inltrates, and intra-acinar eosinophils has been identied as
common features in AIH, whereas a combination of prominent intra-acinar lympho-
cyte inltrates, canalicular cholestasis, andfewerthan two of the features that were
highly exhibited by the livers affected by AIH support a diagnosis of drug-induced
hepatitis. Interestingly, eosinophils were more prevalent in AIH than in drug-
induced hepatitis [70].
Diagnostic Scores forAIH
Diagnostic criteria for autoimmune hepatitis have been published and presented as
scoring systems to diagnose this disease[52, 71, 72]. The revised scoring system
most frequently used during the decade that followed its publication [52] is adapted
in Tables 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, and 4.8 and presented from the perspective of
approaching a patient in whom AIH is suspected. A simplied score system, the
variables of which are titers of autoantibodies, the serum concentration of IgG, liver
histological features, and exclusion of viral hepatitis, has been published[71] and
summarized in Tables 4.9, 4.10, and 4.11.
Comparative analyses of the two scoring systems have been reported. In a study
that comprised 153 patients in whom a diagnosis of denitive AIH had been made
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Table 4.2
Systematic application of the revised scoring system for the diagnosis of autoimmune
hepatitis in the evaluation of a patient with suspected disease and scores associated with presence
or absence of the factor [52]—History
Yes (score) No (score)
Use of potential hepatotoxins (e.g., medications, herbal substances)
temporally related to the hepatitis
−4 +1
History of autoimmune diseases in patient or rst-degree relatives +2 No score
Alcohol intake
<25g/day +2 No score
>60g/day −2 No score
Table 4.3 Systematic application of the revised scoring system for the diagnosis of autoimmune
hepatitis in the evaluation of a patient with suspected disease and scores associated with presence
or absence of the factor—Physical exam
Score
Female gender +2
Table 4.4
Systematic application of the revised scoring system for the diagnosis of autoimmune
hepatitis in the evaluation of a patient with suspected disease and scores associated with presence
or absence of the factor—Laboratory ndings
Ratio Score
a
ALP:AST (or ALT) ratio <1.5 +2
1.5–3.0 0
>3.0 −2
>2.0 +3
1.5–2.0 +2
1.0–1.5 +1
<1.0 0
Titer
ANA, SMA, or LKM-1 >1:80 +3
1:80 +2
1:40 +1
<1:40 0
AMA Positive −4
Hepatitis serology Positive Negative
−3 +3
AP alkaline phosphatase; AST aspartate aminotransferase; ALT alanine aminotransferase
Hepatitis serology: IgM anti-HAV, HBsAg, IgM anti-HBc, anti-HCV, and HCV-RNA.If a viral
etiology is considered in spite of negative viral hepatitis serology as listed here, serology for cyto-
megalovirus,Epstein Barr virusand hepatitis Emust be obtained as these viral infections may be
thecause of the hepatitis
a
Ratio calculated as units above the upper limit of normal (ULN) (i.e., (AP IU/L ÷ (ULN) AP ÷
(IU/L AST÷ ULN AST)
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Table 4.5
Systematic application of the revised scoring system for the diagnosis of autoimmune
hepatitis in the evaluation of a patient with suspected disease and scores associated with presence
or absence of the factor—Histology
Score
Interface hepatitis +3
Predominance of lymphocytes and plasma cells in inammatory inltrate +1
Rosettes formation of hepatocytes +1
Absence of the three ndings cited above –5
Biliary epithelial cell changes suggestive of PBC (e.g., ductopenia, granulomata, bile
ductular proliferation, concentric brosis of bile ducts) or PSC (e.g., concentric brosis
of bile ducts)
–3
Findings suggestive of other etiologies –3
Table 4.6 Systematic application of the revised scoring system for the diagnosis of autoimmune
hepatitis in the evaluation of a patient with suspected disease and scores associated with presence
or absence of the factor—Items characterized as optional
Score
Presence of autoantibodies identied in AIH including pANCA, anti-LC1, anti-SLA, and
anti-ASGPR in the absence of typical autoantibodies (see above)
+2
HLA DR3 or DR4in Caucasian and Japanese subjects
Any other HLA class II antigen
+1
+1
Table 4.7
Systematic application of the revised scoring system for the diagnosis of autoimmune
hepatitis in the evaluation of a patient with suspected disease and scores associated with presence
or absence of the factor—Follow-up period under therapy with immunosuppressants
Denition 1 and score Denition 2 and score
Complete
response as
described
under
denitions 1
or 2
Notable improvement of symptoms and
normalization of serum liver associated
enzyme activity, serum bilirubin and IgG
concentrations within 1year and sustained
followed by a 6month period on
maintenance therapy or liver histology at any
point during the period described above
displaying not more than minimal
inammatory activity, or denition 2
Substantial improvement of
symptoms in association with a
decreaseby 50% of the serum
abnormalities of the liver tests
from baseline, during the rst
month of treatment, followed by
a continuous decrease in the
activity of AST and ALT to less
than twice the ULN within
6months during any reduction
toward maintenance therapy, or
liver histology within 1year
displaying minimal inammatory
activity
+2 +2
Relapse as
described
under
denitions 1
or 2
Increased activity of AST and ALT activities
to higher than twice the ULN, or ndings on
liver histology consistent with active disease,
either in association or not with symptoms,
after a complete remission, as dened above,
or denition 2
Return of symptoms requiring
administration of therapy, or
increase of dose, if the patient is
on medications for AIH, after a
complete response as dened
above
+3 +3
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based on the revised original scoring system [52], 11 (7.1%) were classied as
probable AIH by the use of the simplied scoring system [71], and two (1.3%) were
identied as not having AIH.With the use of the simplied scoring system[71],
ve patients were classied as having denitive and ve as not having AIH, of the
13 who had been classied as probable AIH.Discordance in the diagnosis between
the two scoring systems was 15%, comprising 23 patients, whereas concordance
was exhibited in 127 patients (97.7%) for denite and for probable diagnosis in 3
Table 4.9 Simplied autoimmune hepatitis scoring system[71]—Laboratory variables
Titer Score
Autoantibodies
ANA or ASMA
or
≥1:40 1
ANA or ASMA ≥1:80
Anti-LKM or ≥1:40 2
Anti-SLA Positive
Change
Serum concentration of IgG >ULN limit 1
>1.10 times upper 2
Within normal limits
Absence of viral hepatitis 2
Table 4.10 Simplied autoimmune hepatitis scoring system—Histology
Features Score
Typical of AIH: interface hepatitis, lymphocytic or lymphoplasmacytic inltration of
portal tracts and lobules, emperipolesis, and hepatic rosette formation
2
Compatible with AIH: lymphocytic inltration of portal tracts and lobular activity
without all the features considered typical
1
Atypical: ndings of other diseases
Table 4.11 Simplied autoimmune hepatitis scoring system—Interpretation of the summation
of scores
Total score
≥6 Probable AIH
≥7 Denite AIH
Table 4.8 Systematic application of the revised scoring system for the diagnosis of autoimmune
hepatitis in the evaluation of a patient with suspected disease and scores associated with presence
or absence of the factor—Interpretation of scores
Denite AIH Probable AIH
Pre treatment >15 10–15
Post treatment >17 12–17
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(2.4%) [72]. Remission with treatment in patients diagnosed as having denite or
probable AIH by the use of the revised original scoring criteria was 68% and 75%,
respectively, and the failure of therapy was 16 and 0%, respectively. Seventy and 50
percent of patients classied by the simplied scoring criteria as having denite
and probable AIH, respectively, achieved remission in association with therapy, and
15 and 25% of patients, respectively, failed treatment. These responses were not
different in relation to the score used. In this study, ve patients had non diagnostic
scores as per the simplied scoring criteria, four of whom responded to treatment
with remission, and one was still on therapy at the time of the study completion
[72]. Neither of the two scoring systems compared classied patients with chronic
liver disease from alcohol, viral hepatitis, or primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) with
those who had denite AIH; two patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)
were classied as AIH by both systems [72]. The comparison of sensitivity, speci-
city, and positive predictability and negative predictability of the original scoring
system with the simplied scoring system was 100 and 95%, 73 and 90%, 82 and
92%, 67 and 83%, and 100 and 97%, respectively [72], in this study from a center
in the United States. The simplied scoring system has been considered to be sim-
pler in its application than the revised system, of being able to exclude more fre-
quently other liver diseases, and of carrying a higher specicity than that of the
latter, with the revised scoring system being reported as 95% specic and 90%
sensitive, but a sensitivity of 65% and a specicity of 100% for the simplied scor-
ing system [73]. A study that included patients with overlap syndrome, AIH, and
other liver diseases in association with AIH, documented that the simplied and the
revised scoring systems werespecic at97.9 and 97%, respectively[74]. However,
it was noted that the ability to identify AIH in patients with other liver diseases was
signicantly lower withthe use of the simplied scoring system thanwiththe use
of the revised scoring system, liver histology being the only factor able to reveal
that information [74]. In this regard, from in a series that included 25 patients from
Asia, Europe, and the United States, 20 of whom had chronic hepatitis C and ve
chronic hepatitis B, it was reported that, according to the revised scoring system,
72% met the criteria for the diagnosis of probable AIH, and 48% met these criteria
as per the simplied scoring system [75]; however, none of the patients were diag-
nosed with denite AIH by either score [73]. These ndings underscore the impor-
tance of the differential diagnosis in evaluating patients with liver disease.
Specically, the existence of a viral disease, i.e., hepatitis, does not exclude the
presence of another liver disease, including metabolic and autoimmune disease.
Accordingly, a full liver disease workup is required in the approach to a patient
with suspected liver disease. This study [75] tends to support those of the prior
report that documented that liver biopsy was necessary to conrm the coexistence
of additional liver pathology [73]. It is also emphasized that the use of the scoring
systems is complementary to clinical judgment. Autoimmune markers by ELISA
methodology have not been used to validate the scoring system [72]; this is neces-
sary as clinical laboratories have moved to this type of assay as the methodology
for these tests.
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Overlap Syndromes
There are clinical, histological, and biochemical features of AIH, PBC, and PSC
[76] that coexist in a minority of patients with any of these diseases. These entities
have been named overlap syndromes, mostly comprising AIH and PBC cases, and
have been the subject of some controversy regarding their existence as separate enti-
ties, as part of the same disease, as one disease changing to another, or some char-
acteristics of each. The diagnostic criteria for the overlap syndrome of AIH with
PBC have been named the Paris criteria[77] and include at least two of the three
accepted criteria for the diagnosis of each of those individual diseases, and has a
sensitivity and specicity of 92% and 97%, respectively. For PBC, the diagnostic
criteria are: (1) serum AP activity at least two times the upper limit of normal or
serum GGTP ve times the upper limit of normal, (2) positive antimitochondrial
antibody (AMA), and (3) liver biopsy exhibiting the lesion of chronic nonsuppura-
tive destructive cholangitis (i.e., orid bile duct lesion). For AIH, the diagnostic
criteria are: (1) serum activity of ALT at least ve times the upper limit of normal,
(2) serum IgG concentrations at least twice the upper limit of normal or positive
ASMA, and (3) interface hepatitis on liver histology [77]. The diagnosis of AIH
overlapping PSC is the absence of AMA and typical cholangiogram (e.g., strictures)
by MRI or ERCP [78, 79].
AIH with overlap to PBC has been reported to occur in approximately 7–10% of
patients and AIH with PSC 8–17%. AMA negative PBC, small duct PSC, autoim-
mune PSC, and immunoglobulin G4-associated cholangitis are considered variants
of the overlap syndromes[76]. The difculty in diagnosing overlap syndromes with
a high level of certainty seems to have encouraged scoring systems to classify
patients with an overlap of AIH on PBC and PSC. Features of AIH overlap were
identied in 137 cases of histologically diagnosed PBC by the use of the revised
scoring system, with 2% being found to meet criteria for denite AIH and 62% for
probable AIH; no cases of denite AIH overlap were identied, with 19% meeting
criteria for probable AIH overlap [80]. The main contribution to identifying overlap
AIH in PBC was the presence of ANA, associated autoimmune disorders, and his-
tological ndings [80]. In this regard, the serological prole of patients with PBC
with an overlap to AIH has been documented to consist of a predominance of anti-
dsDNA antibodies, found in 60% of patients with overlap syndrome of AIH and
PBC, in contrast to a 4% prevalence in patients with PBC, and 26% of patients with
AIH.The dual presence of anti-dsDNA antibodies and AMA was only reported in
2% of patients with PBC or AIH, in contrast to 47% of samples from patients with
overlap syndrome, a nding that could help identify this not so distinct entity [81].
Analyses of data from patients with PSC have documented a prevalence of AIH
overlap of 6 and 11%, in contrast to what ranged from 30 to 50% by the use of the
original scoring system [82]. However, others have documented a prevalence of
19% of overlap of AIH in PSC with the use of the revised system[83]. With the
advent of the simplied scoring system, several published retrospective studies have
reported the ability of the revised and the simplied scoring system for the
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