Should ambulant patients be directed to reception or triage first?
Directing patients to attend reception first is timely and less confusing. It is safe provided booking in does not delay assessment by more than 15 minutes.
In a genome-wide association study, we associated AIH type 1 with variants in the major histocompatibility complex region, and identified variants of SH2B3and CARD10 as likely risk factors. These findings support a complex genetic basis for AIH pathogenesis and indicate that part of the genetic susceptibility overlaps with that for other immune-mediated liver diseases.