Biliary atresia (BA)
Prolonged Neonatal Jaundice and the Diagnosis of Biliary Atresia: A Single-Center Analysis of Trends in Age at Diagnosis and Outcomes
... of BA over the past 15 ...the Biliary Atresia Research Consortium (BARC) of 9 referral centers in the United States, 5 where, between 1999 and 2003, the mean age ...
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Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangioscopy and Lithotripsy for Intrahepatic Biliary Stones and Sclerosing Cholangitis Secondary to Kasai Procedure for Biliary Atresia: A Case Report
... Biliary atresia (BA) is a disorder of infants characterized by obliteration or discontinuity of the extrahepatic biliary system, resulting in obstruction of bile ...[1]. BA has an ...
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Aetiology of biliary atresia: what is actually known?
... cells; BA: Biliary atresia; BASM: Biliary atresia splenic malformation; CBA: Cystic biliary atresia; CCL: Chemokine ligand; CCR-5: C-C chemokine receptor type 5; CD: ...
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Biliary atresia
... Biliary atresia (BA) is a rare disease characterised by a biliary obstruction of unknown origin that presents in the neonatal ...group. BA occurs in approximately 1/18,000 live births ...
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Management of Biliary Atresia: A Review
... for Biliary Atresia If the Kasai operation is not successful, that is, no restoration of bile flow is achieved, and/or medical complications of biliary cirrhosis appear, even if jaundice has ...
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Liver transplant score for prediction of biliary atresia patients’ survival following Kasai procedure
... 26 BA patients who underwent the Kasai procedure during a 4-year study period, with mean age at diagnosis of 126 ± ...with BA, respectively (Table ...of BA patients after the Kasai surgery were 15 ...
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Staging of biliary atresia at diagnosis by molecular profiling of the liver
... of biliary atresia [7,8,34], which begins with prominent inflammation of the liver and extrahepatic bile ducts and progresses to less inflammation and persistent duct obstruction; however, in humans, the ...
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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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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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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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ABSTRACT. Objective. Biliary atresia is the leading
... of biliary atresia among term LBW infants was ...of biliary atresia among term LBW infants was 9 times greater than among term NBW infants, and the difference was statistically sig- nificant ...
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Biliary Atresia, Cytomegalovirus, and Age at Referral
... with which patients with extrahepatic biliary atresia (EHBA) are infected with cytomegalovirus (CMV) and to ascertain the age at referral to a specialty center for sur-.. gical correctio[r] ...
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Newborn Screening for Biliary Atresia
... authors reported a decrease in the mean age at the time of the Kasai procedure from 70.3 days to 59.7 days. Of the 34 infants in whom biliary atresia was diagnosed during the study period, 26 were identi fi ...
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Parental Refusal of a Liver Transplant for a Child With Biliary Atresia
... rent data available regarding the ben- e fi ts and the risks of organ transplant. I would evaluate for potential surgical and medical contraindications to trans- plant. These factors include a severe progressive systemic ...
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Effect of Rotavirus Strain on the Murine Model of Biliary Atresia
... of biliary atresia, the biliary epithelium is the specific target of perinatal RRV in- fection ...the biliary epithelial tropism was unique to RRV, we performed intraperitoneal injections of ...
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Biliary Atresia
... hepatic portal dissection in biliary atresia. Altman RP, Lilly JR: Technical details in the surgical cor-[r] ...
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Jaundice Clearance and Cholangitis in the First Year Following Portoenterostomy for Biliary Atresia
... Jaundice Clearance and Cholangitis in the First Year Following Portoenterostomy for Biliary Atresia Jaundice Clearance and Cholangitis in the First Year Following Portoenterostomy for Biliary Atresia[.] ...
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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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Maternal microchimerism in the livers of patients with Biliary atresia
... Frozen tissues sections of BA patient's livers (5 µm) were fixed in acetone for 10 minutes at 4°C then washed in PBS (5 minutes centrifugation × 3). Sections were blocked with Protein Block (Dako, Carpinteria, CA, ...
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Serum MMP-7 in the Diagnosis of Biliary Atresia
... differentiating BA from other obstructive cholestasis, they are time consuming and ...with BA when compared with non-BA using a high-throughput proteomic assay ...of BA and thereby its use as ...
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