Epidemiology and liver transplantation burden of primary biliary cholangitis: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a wealth of data documenting the epidemiology of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) globally; however, the epidemiology of PBC has not been as well studied in Canada. Our study characterized the Canadian prevalence of PBC and the number of liver transplantations because of PBC.

Methods

For this retrospective cohort study we used national hospital administrative records from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, with the exception of Quebec for the prevalence estimate and Quebec and British Columbia for the transplant analysis. Prevalent patients were identified through a diagnostic code for PBC of the Canadian version of the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases. PBC transplant patients were identified from their transplant

SUBMITTER: Yoshida EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303180 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature