Concept on the pathogenesis and treatment of primary biliary cirrhosis

Table 2 Arithmetic means of the dissociation coefficient in different nosological forms of chronic diffuse hepatic lesions

Liver lesion	Cd (mean ± SD)	Cd ranges
PBC (n = 11)	0.61 ± 0.03b	0.41 ± 0.84
CH (n = 20)	0.14 ± 0.04	0.02-0.24
LC (n = 3)	0.18 ± 0.03	0.14-0.24
UH (n = 8)	0.11 ± 0.02	0.00-0.16
FH (n = 11)	0.07 ± 0.02	0.00-0.14
Controls (n = 16)	0.09 ± 0.02	0.00-0.18

CH: Chronic hepatitis of various etiology; PBC: Primary biliary cirrhosis; UH: Gilbert’s unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia; FH: Fatty hepatosis; LC: Liver cirrhosis;

^bP < 0.001 vs both the controls and other groups of the disease.