Caracterización de pacientes con enfermedades hepáticas autoinmunes Patients caracterization with autoinmune liver diseases

Introduction: The liver diseases of autoimmune etiology are cause of chronic hepatopathies able to progress to the cirrhosis in dependency of the stage to the moment of the diagnostic and of the answer or no to the treatment. Methods: It realized a descriptive study, retrospective and prospective, with the aim to define the clinical and demographic characteristics of the patients with autoimmune hepatic illnesses attended in the outpatient of Hepatology at CIMEQ, between November of the 2010 and June of the 2013. Results: Of 46 patients studied the most frequent entity was the Autoimmune Hepatitis (59 %) gone on down the Overlap Syndrome (17 %). The 66.7 % of the patients presented compensated cirrhosis to the moment of the diagnostic of Autoimmune Hepatitis and of the 50 % of which had Primary Biliary Cirrhosis. The 80 % of the patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis and the 37.5 % of which had overlap syndrome presented compensated cirrhosis. Conclusions: It predominated the female and the fourth decade of the life in the cases diagnosed. The most frequent etiology was the autoimmune hepatitis and more than half of the patients found in stage of compensated cirrhosis to the moment of the diagnostic. In the final evaluation all the etiologic groups had patients with compensated liver cirrhosis.