Changes in disease characteristics of primary biliary cholangitis: An observational retrospective study from 1982 to 2016.
Masaaki TakamuraYasunobu MatsudaNaruhiro KimuraMasafumi TakatsunaToru SetsuAtsunori TsuchiyaAkihiko OsakiNobuo WaguriMasahiko YanagiToru TakahashiSoichi SugitaniYuka KobayashiAkira YoshikawaToru IshikawaToshiaki YoshidaToshiaki WatanabeHitoshi BannaiTomoyuki KubotaKazuhiro FunakoshiHiroto WakabayashiSo KuritaNorio OgataMasashi WatanabeYuhsaku MitaShigeki MoriMotoya SugiyamaToru MiyajimaSumio TakahashiShuichi SatoKisei IshizukaHironobu OhtaYutaka AoyagiShuji Terainull nullPublished in: Hepatology research : the official journal of the Japan Society of Hepatology (2020)
Patients with primary biliary cholangitis were characterized by older age at diagnosis and an increase in male to female ratio as well as higher response rates of ursodeoxycholic acid and longer survival, resulting from the early recognition of primary biliary cholangitis.