Journal article
Increasing prevalence of primary biliary cholangitis in Victoria, Australia
J French, I van der Mei, S Simpson, J Ng, P Angus, J Lubel, A Nicoll, S Sood, SK Roberts, W Kemp, N Arachchi, A Dev, A Thompson, PJ Gow
Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Australia | WILEY | Published : 2020
DOI: 10.1111/jgh.14924
Abstract
Background and Aim: The prevalence of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) reported in different countries varies significantly and in some parts of the world appears to be increasing. The aim of this study was to determine the 2013 prevalence of PBC in Victoria, Australia, and to determine the time trend by comparing it with previous studies undertaken in 1991 and 2002. Methods: Four case-finding methods were used to identify cases of PBC in Victoria: (1) physicians' survey; (2) tertiary hospital search; (3) liver transplant database search; and (4) private pathology antimitochondrial antibody search. Results: The prevalence of PBC in Victoria, Australia, is 189.0 per million using all four me..
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Orphan Australia provided a grant for this research project.