Changing nomenclature for PBC: from ‘cirrhosis’ to ‘cholangitis’

Ulrich Beuers; M Eric Gershwin; Robert G Gish; Pietro Invernizzi; David E J Jones; Keith Lindor; Xiong Ma; Ian R Mackay; Albert Parés; Atsushi Tanaka; John M Vierling; Raoul Poupon

doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2015-310593

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Changing nomenclature for PBC: from ‘cirrhosis’ to ‘cholangitis’

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Ulrich Beuers Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology and Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
M Eric Gershwin Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, The University of California School of Medicine, Davis, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Robert G Gish Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Pietro Invernizzi Center for Autoimmune Liver Diseases, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano (Milan), Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
David E J Jones Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Keith Lindor College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Xiong Ma Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ian R Mackay Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Albert Parés Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, CIBERehd, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Atsushi Tanaka Department of Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan PubMed articles Google scholar articles
John M Vierling Departments of Medicine and Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Raoul Poupon Service d'Hépatologie, Reference Center for Inflammatory Biliary Diseases, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Ulrich Beuers, Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam 1100 DE, The Netherlands; u.h.beuers{at}amc.uva.nl http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This article is being published jointly in American Journal of Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Digestive & Liver disease, Gastroenterology, Gut, Hepatology and Journal of Hepatology.

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Beuers U, Gershwin ME, Gish RG, et al

Changing nomenclature for PBC: from ‘cirrhosis’ to ‘cholangitis’

Gut 2015;64:1671-1672.

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Accepted August 20, 2015
First published September 14, 2015.

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April 18, 2016

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