Changing nomenclature for PBC: from 'cirrhosis' to 'cholangitis'

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology and Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: u.h.beuers@amc.uva.nl.
• ² Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, The University of California School of Medicine, Davis, CA, USA.
• ³ Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
• ⁴ Center for Autoimmune Liver Diseases, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano (Milan), Italy.
• ⁵ Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ⁶ College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
• ⁷ Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China.
• ⁸ Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia.
• ⁹ Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, CIBERehd, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹¹ Departments of Medicine and Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
• ¹² Reference Center for Inflammatory Biliary Diseases, Service d'Hépatologie, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, France.