Primary Biliary Cholangitis with Ankylosing Spondylitis

Abstract

Primary biliary cholangitis is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune liver disease that is characterized by a positive antimitochondrial antibodies test and progressive destruction of the small intrahepatic bile duct. Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic, systemic, inflammatory disease of the spine and the sacroiliac joints. The association between these two is very low. This paper reports a rare case who had ankylosing spondylitis and developed primary biliary cholangitis.

Keywords

• primary biliary cholangitis
• spondylitis
• ankylosing
• autoimmune diseases