Changing nomenclature for PBC from "primary biliary cirrhosis" to "primary biliary cholangitis"

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ² The Intractable Hepato-Biliary Diseases Study Group in Japan.
• ³ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
• ⁴ The Japanese Society of Gastroenterology.
• ⁵ Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Moroyama, Japan.
• ⁷ The Japan Society of Hepatology.
• ⁸ Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.