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Is between PBC and PSC?

My daughter has it, I carried the gene with my UC.

And are any posters in the ~UK please.

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PBC is Primary Biliary Cirrhosis where the antibodies known as anti-mitochondria (AMA) attack the small bile ducts within the liver thus causing inflammation of the liver.

PSC is Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis which is also auto-immune like PBC but as far as I can understand the bile ducts become inflamed as opposed to disappearing slowly over time as PBC can do. The inflamed bile ducts can then suffer blockages. I think I am right in saying that one with PSC normally has a pisitive for ANA (antibodies of the anti-nucleus).

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Samething, just changed name.

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