Talk:Autoimmune hepatitis

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This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2022 and 4 February 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kbogd.

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Serology patterns
An article on the serology patterns:. JFW | T@lk  13:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

The introduction
Please help edit this article by improving the introduction. 71.184.189.16 (talk) 17:41, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Race?
The article says: "For instance, African Americans appear to present with a more aggressive disease that is associated with worse outcomes"

There is no race of being African American, it is a courtesy title brought into use to avoid the less appetising terms for this very broad grouping of peoples from many parts of Africa. When we speak of disease and race we need to avoid semantic gymnastics and deal with the true underlying race.

Why?

Because people turn to us for hard information. Fiddle  Faddle  17:32, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

lupoid hepatitis
originally named this because it stains homogeneously like SLE. fun fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:3C20:111A:6D9D:99F:470A:77CA (talk) 19:53, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

WikiMedicine Project
Hello! I'm a 4th year medical student working on the article as part of a WikiProject Medicine class. I would like to update this page with more current information regarding guidelines, pathophysiology, treatment, and prognosis.

I propose a few changes below:


 * Lead paragraph – update the lead to include more language about potential symptoms, evaluation and diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis
 * Signs and symptoms – expand the section regarding physical exam findings and general difficulty in determining this disease due to its overlap with many other causes of hepatitis
 * Causes – discuss the genetic predisposition and accompanying triggers that may lead to the development of the disease
 * Mechanism – potentially omit this section or combine with Causes since it requires the aforementioned explanation about immunologic processes
 * Diagnosis - discuss the criteria for diagnosis based on current guidelines as well as the need to exclude other causes of hepatitis such as viral, drug-induced, alcoholic injury
 * Prevention or Screening – potentially mention that as an autoimmune disease, difficult to avoid its development
 * Treatment – clean up section for grammar, introduce new guidelines or treatments available within the last couple of years or currently being researched
 * Outcomes or Prognosis – expand on morbidity and mortality with new figures
 * Epidemiology - update figures with current data regarding incidence and demographics
 * Research direction – current research being done on the disease

Kbogd (talk) 14:43, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikiproject Medicine; UCF College of Medicine Peer Review
Overall, this was a fantastic job improving the article and adding comprehensive content! Recommend the following: Lead paragraph – I really liked the addition of alternative names of the conditions in the introduction, along with symptoms. Recommend moving 2nd paragraph on pathophysiology of disease to the cause section to improve organization Signs and symptoms- Recommend including additional hyperlinks to the signs and symptoms to further facilitate reader understanding. Citations appropriate Causes – Great job consolidating the causes and mechanism sections together for improved organization. Recommend moving second paragraph of introduction to this section (information regarding the MHC class II receptors). Recommend adding hyperlinks to HLA-DR3 and HLA-DR4 to allow readers to learn more about their role in disease. Citations in this section are high quality and appropriate Diagnosis – Excellent job adding information on diagnostic criteria, scoring, and classification. Differential diagnosis was comprehensive, yet readable. Recommend adding histologic images to the histology sub-section Treatment- My favorite part of the article! I really enjoyed reading about current treatment options, along with the future direction of treatment. Citations high quality and appropriately sourced. Recommend adding images of liver biopsy findings. Prognosis – Appears correct and consistent with most recent literature. Does not require further improvement, but may benefit from additional content on comorbidity Epidemiology – incidence and demographic information appears consistent with recent epidemiological data. Citations are appropriate and high quality

Wonderful job!!! Timqle (talk) 17:02, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi Timqle, thank you so much for the great feedback! I will go ahead and start implementing some of the recommendations for expanded sections and reorganization. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kbogd (talk • contribs) 21:24, 3 February 2022 (UTC)