Internal Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Pathology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
BMJ Case Rep. 2021 May 24;14(5):e239944. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2020-239944.
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is an inflammatory disorder of the liver with a wide spectrum of disease presentation, from asymptomatic elevations in liver-associated enzymes to acute liver failure. AIH is classically associated with elevated immunoglobulins and autoantibodies, although approximately 20% of patients with features of AIH lack circulating antibodies. Recently, tumour necrosis factor alpha inhibitors have been implicated in several cases of drug-induced AIH which impact treatment regimens for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We present a case of infliximab-induced seronegative AIH responding to budesonide therapy with successful alteration of IBD treatment regimen to vedolizumab.
自身免疫性肝炎(AIH)是一种肝脏炎症性疾病,其临床表现广泛,从无症状的肝相关酶升高到急性肝衰竭。AIH 通常与免疫球蛋白和自身抗体升高有关,尽管大约 20%的具有 AIH 特征的患者缺乏循环抗体。最近,肿瘤坏死因子-α抑制剂已被牵涉到几例药物诱导的 AIH 中,这些病例影响了炎症性肠病(IBD)患者的治疗方案。我们报告了一例英夫利昔单抗诱导的血清阴性 AIH,对布地奈德治疗有反应,并成功地将 IBD 治疗方案改为维得利珠单抗。