“…Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a progressive autoimmune liver disease characterized by portal in ammation, immune-mediated destruction of the intrahepatic bile ducts, and the presence of highly speci c anti-mitochondrial antibodies (AMAs) in the serum (1) . Patients with PBC occasionally suffer complications from other autoimmune diseases (2)(3)(4)(5) , such as Sjögren's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis or scleroderma caused by either systemic sclerosis (SSc) or limited cutaneous SSc (lcSSc), which was previously called CREST (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly and telangiectasias) syndrome. LcSSc is accompanied by CREST symptoms, although CREST cases that involve all of these symptoms are rare, with a high prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon, sclerodactyly and telangiectasia and a lower prevalence of calcinosis and esophageal dysmotility (6) .…”