Suitability of the simplified autoimmune hepatitis score for the diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis in a German cohort.

Background: Several years ago the International Autoimmune Hepatitis Group simplified the previous for diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) into a scoring system based on only four instead of 13 parameters.

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the suitability of the AIH score for diagnosis of AIH in a German cohort with chronic liver diseases.

Methods: In this retrospective single-center study, we compared the accuracy of both AIH scores in 70 patients with AIH and 211 patients with chronic liver diseases (PBC ( = 52), PSC ( = 27), NASH ( = 67), DILI ( = 15), CHB/C ( = 50)).