Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new ultrasound approach helped identify patients later diagnosed with biliary atresia. The method would ...

Biliary atresia (BA) is a condition characterized by a discontinuity or obliteration of the extrahepatic or biliary system that results in bile flow obstruction. It is a rare disorder in newborn ...

Based on the onset of disease, biliary atresia is classified as fetal and perinatal. In the fetal type, the biliary duct obstruction occurs during pregnancy in-utero. While the perinatal type occurs ...

Serum levels of matrix metalloproteinase 7 (MMP7, also known as matrilysin), combined with γ-glutamyltransferase (GGT) concentration, is an accurate diagnostic biomarker for biliary atresia, reports a ...

Biliary atresia accounts for approximately 60% of the liver transplantations in infants younger than 1 year of age. These complicated early transplantations can be prevented only with the use of the ...

Neonatal hepatitis (NH) and biliary atresia are two separate conditions that share specific symptoms. Both conditions affect newborn infants and can cause liver damage. Bile is a substance the liver ...

Biliary atresia is an inflammatory and fibrosing cholangiopathy of infancy caused by viruses, environmental toxins and targeted epithelial injury that obstructs extrahepatic bile ducts and rapidly ...

BOSTON, Nov. 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Albireo Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALBO), a rare disease company developing novel bile acid modulators to treat pediatric and adult liver diseases, today announced ...