Journal of Practical Hepatology ›› 2020, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (6): 821-824.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-5069.2020.06.016

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Liganlong and magnesium isoglycyrrhizate combination mitigates liver injury via inhibiting humoral immunity in patients with autoimmune hepatitis

Wang Yu, Wang Nan, Wang Qiaoxia, et al   

  1. Department of Gastroenterology, Central Hospital, Affiliated to Jiaotong University Xi'an Medical College, Xi'an 710003, Shaanxi Province, China
  • Received:2020-03-20 Published:2021-02-25

Abstract: Objective The aim of this study was to analyze Liganlong, a herbal conpound, and magnesium isoglycyrrhizate combination how to mitigates liver injury in patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH). Methods 122 patients with AIH were admitted to Department of Infectious Diseases and Gastroenterology in our hospital between July 2017 and May 2019, and were divided into control group and observation group by computer-generated randomized numbers, with 61 cases in each. The patients in the control group were treated by intravenous infusion of magnesium isoglycyrrhizinate and those in the observation group were treated with Liganlong tablets orally at the basis of medicine in the control group. The regimen in both groups lasted for 3 months. Serum chemotactic factor (CF) and immunoglobulin (Ig) levels were detected. Results At the end of treatment, serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) level in the observation group was (46.3±13.7) U/L, significantly lower than [(82.5±14.2) U/L, P<0.05] and serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) level was (45.5±14.3) U/L, significantly lower than [(66.7±16.8) U/L, P<0.05] in the control group; serum CF-8 level was (10.6±2.1)pg/mL, significantly lower than 【(15.8±3.3)pg/mL, P<0.05】, serum CF-2 level was (13.5±1.0)pg/mL, significantly lower than 【(19.0±1.3)pg/mL, P<0.05】, and serum CF-9 level was (12.1±1.7)pg/mL, significantly lower than 【(15.8±1.4)pg/mL, P<0.05】; serum IgG level was (1313.1±191.0)mg/L, significantly lower than 【(1816.4±311.6)mg/L, P<0.05】, serum IgM level was (506.2±151.3)mg/L, significantly lower than 【(814.1±225.1)mg/L, P<0.05】,and serum IgA level was (509.1±128.6)mg/L, significantly lower than 【(749.7±231.9)mg/L, P<0.05】 in the control; during the treatment, the incidence of side effects in the combination group was 18.0%, not significantly different as compared to 4.9% in the control group (P>0.05). Conclusion The steroid free treatment, e.g. Liganlong, a herbal medicine, and magnesium isoglycyrrhizinate combination, in patients with autoimmune hepatitis is a real viable option to obtain remission, that might be related to the inhibition of humoral immunity, reduction of serum CF-8 , CF-9 and CF-2 levels and obviously improvement of liver functions.

Key words: Autoimmune hepatitis, Liganlong,herbal medicine, Magnesium isoglycyrrhizinate, Humoral immunity, Chemokine-8, Therapy