International Autoimmune Hepatitis Group Report: review of criteria for diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis

F Alvarez, PA Berg, FB Bianchi… - Journal of …, 1999 - journal-of-hepatology.eu
Fllowing the identification of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in 1989 (l), there was considerable
uncertainty about criteria for diagnosis of the liver disorder which was then known as
autoimmune chronic active hepatitis. In 1992, a panel of 27 physicians and pathologists with
a particular interest in the syndrome was therefore convened at a meeting in Brighton, UK, to
review the diagnostic criteria. That panel became the International Autoimmune Hepatitis
Group (IAIHG), which shortly thereafter expanded to 40 members from 17 countries. The …