Biliary Atresia
Biliary atresia
... Biliary atresia (BA) is a rare disease characterised by a biliary obstruction of unknown origin that presents in the neonatal ...the biliary flow or if cirrhotic complications ...
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Fractures in Biliary Atresia Misinterpreted as Child Abuse
... in biliary atresia, however, remains ...with biliary atresia who have progressive injury of the intrahepatic bile ducts with subsequent cho- lestasis are at risk for vitamin D deficiency ...
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Effect of Rotavirus Strain on the Murine Model of Biliary Atresia
... Biliary atresia is a devastating disorder of the newborn in which afflicted infants develop inflammation and fibrosis of the extrahepatic biliary tract, resulting in cirrhosis and end-stage liver ...
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Parental Refusal of a Liver Transplant for a Child With Biliary Atresia
... Most children with biliary atresia have jaundice that begins in the fi rst few weeks of life. Often, families assume that the problem is due to “ normal newborn jaundice ” that just goes away. It is natural ...
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Long-term effects of Kasai portoenterostomy for biliary atresia
... Till the mid 20th century biliary atresia (BA) was lethal [1, 2]. Surgical correction of this defect by portoenterostomy was introduced in 1952 by Prof. Morio Kasai. The operation includes resection of ...
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Stool Color Card Screening for Biliary Atresia
... The median age at first admission for patients with suspected biliary atresia decreased after the implementation of stool color card screening from 47 days to 43 days (P ⫽ .028). The median ages for patients ...
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Maternal microchimerism in the livers of patients with Biliary atresia
... Background: Biliary atresia (BA) is a neonatal cholestatic disease of unknown etiology. It is the leading cause of liver transplantation in children. Many similarities exist between BA and graft versus host ...
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Newborn biliary atresia screening with the stool colour card: a questionnaire survey of parents
... with biliary atresia babies tells us that in cases of pale stools, that is, ‘biliary atresia-stools’, it might be difficult to choose the right colour due to the staining of the baby’s stools ...
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Decreasing Rate of Biliary Atresia in Taiwan: A Survey, 2004–2009
... screening and reporting system for BA for all neonates by 2004. There are 2 reporting systems for BA in Taiwan. The first system is the Taiwan Infant Stool Color Card Registry System. All physicians and families of ...
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Factors Related to the Clinical Outcomes of the Kasai Procedure in Infants with Biliary Atresia
... Unfortunately, the majority of infants in developing countries reach tertiary-care centers when they are older than the maximum recommended age of 2 months for the performance of a Kasai portoenterostomy. As well, liver ...
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Staging of biliary atresia at diagnosis by molecular profiling of the liver
... of biliary atresia and identified genes with potential roles in pathogenesis of the embryonic form of disease ...and biliary injury was demonstrated in mechanis- tic studies showing that the in vivo ...
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Evaluation of the Triangular Cord Sign in the Diagnosis of Biliary Atresia
... I nfantile cholestasis continues to represent a diag- nostic challenge. The evaluation of the infant with cholestasis is a multistep process that should fol- low a logical, cost-effective sequence. It is important to ...
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Aetiology of biliary atresia: what is actually known?
... BA: Biliary atresia; BASM: Biliary atresia splenic malformation; CBA: Cystic biliary atresia; CCL: Chemokine ligand; CCR-5: C-C chemokine receptor type 5; CD: Dendritic cell; ...
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Characteristics of Malaysian Infants with Biliary Atresia and Neonatal Hepatits
... Characteristics of Malaysian Infants with Biliary Atresia and Neonatal Hepatitis Characteristics of M alaysian Infants wi th Biliary Atresia and Neonatal Hepa titis S Kamameedi, MRCP, CT tim, FRCp, De[.] ...
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microRNA 21 expressions impact on liver fibrosis in biliary atresia patients
... Keywords: Biliary atresia, Biliary cirrhosis, Liver fibrogenesis, miRNA-21, PTEN, qPCR Introduction Biliary atresia BA is the most common cause of neonatal jaundice, characterized by pr[r] ...
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Biliary atresia and the Kasai operation
... In infants whose obstructive jaundice is due to such abnormalities of the extrahepatic biliary tree, we encounter pa- tients with (1) extrahepatic biliary atresia and a normal number of [r] ...
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Newborn Screening for Biliary Atresia
... of biliary atresia is suf fi ciently well ...of biliary atresia, and the utility of newborn serum conjugated bilirubin screening for biliary atresia remains ...
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ABSTRACT. Objective. Biliary atresia is the leading
... with biliary atresia were identified from 1968 through 1993 by the Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program ...detecting biliary atresia, which is usually not diag- nosed until the ...
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Management of Biliary Atresia: A Review
... with biliary atresia depends on better understanding of the aetiopathogenesis, optimizing referral, surgical management and problem specific postoperative ...
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Prolonged Neonatal Jaundice and the Diagnosis of Biliary Atresia: A Single-Center Analysis of Trends in Age at Diagnosis and Outcomes
... There has been no improvement in the age at diagnosis of BA over the past 15 years. Indeed, there is a concern- ing trend toward an increase, with many patients still being diagnosed far too late. The overall mean age at ...
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