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Primary biliary cholangitis: One woman’s battle with a rare autoimmune liver disease

 04/05/2026 1 Views
Primary biliary cholangitis: One woman’s battle with a rare autoimmune liver disease


Three times, she was told a liver might be available, only for each opportunity to fall through.

“Every day, you think about when you can have the operation, and, if you have the operation, will you die from it too? I was very down,” Quek said. “Sometimes, I felt like giving up but luckily, I met a doctor who never gives up on his patients.”

Her children, now aged 18 and 19, were her strength and the reason why she held on during the lowest moments of her health ordeal.

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