Position paper of the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver (AISF): Management and treatment of primary biliary cholangitis

Affiliations

• ¹ Epatologia e Gastroenterologia, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milano; Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
• ² Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
• ³ Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padova, Padua, Italy; Multivisceral Transplant Unit and Gastroenterology, European Reference Network on Hepatological Diseases (ERN Rare-Liver),Padova University Hospital, 35128 Padua, Italy.
• ⁵ Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Departmental Program "Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System," University of Naples "Federico II, Naples, Italy.
• ⁶ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy; Division of Internal Medicine and Hepatology, Department of Gastroenterology, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, 20089 Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
• ⁷ Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, CEMAD, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy; Department of Translational Medicine and Surgery, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
• ⁸ Clinic of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ospedali Riuniti University Hospital, Ancona, Italy.
• ⁹ Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare n. 11, 70124, Bari, Italy; INBB National Institute for Biostructure and Biosystems, Viale delle Medaglie d'Oro 305, 00136, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁰ DIMEC, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; European Reference Network for Hepatological Disease (ERN RARE-LIVER), IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
• ¹¹ Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy; Division of Internal Medicine, AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy.
• ¹² Operative Research Unit of Clinical Medicine and Hepatology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Via Alvaro del Portillo, Rome, Italy; Research Unit of Hepatology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Rome, Via Alvaro del Portillo, Rome, Italy.
• ¹³ Division of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 20122 Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁴ Gastrointestinal and Liver Unit, Department of Health Promotion Sciences Maternal and Infantile Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].