title: Overlap syndrome triggered by acute viral hepatitis A.
abstract: We report the case of a 24-year-old woman with an autoimmune hepatitis/primary biliary cirrhosis overlap syndrome triggered by an acute hepatitis A. A number of viruses have been proposed as potential triggers of autoimmune hepatitis in patients with genetic predisposition. To date, approximately 10 cases of type 1 autoimmune hepatitis following hepatitis A virus infection have been published in the medical literature. To our knowledge, this is the first case of overlap syndrome triggered by an acute hepatitis A.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Hépato-Gastroenterologie, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Reims, France. aheurgue@chu-reims.fr
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heurgué
authors.forename: Brigitte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bernard-Chabert
authors.forename: Rémi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Picot
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cadiot
authors.forename: Gérard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Thiéfin
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D005260:Female; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000150:complications*; D019693:Hepatitis, Autoimmune / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D008105:Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary / Q000821:virology*; D013577:Syndrome; D055815:Young Adult