No association of serum ferritin levels with advanced liver fibrosis in untreated German patients with autoimmune hepatitis

[摘要] In the January 2022 issue of BMC Gastroenterology, Chen et al. report an association between serum ferritin levels and the presence of advanced liver fibrosis in patients with treatment-naïve autoimmune hepatitis (AIH). The odds ratio for ferritin in this study was marginally above 1.0. We analyzed our own published data from a German cohort for an association between ferritin levels and the presence of advanced fibrosis in treatment-naïve AIH and were not able to validate the findings of Cheng et al.

[发布日期] 2022-11-14

[关键词] Biochemical remission;Incomplete response;AIH;Iron;Treatment response