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 ...

This study found significant inter-hospital variability in the age at which Kasai portoenterostomy for biliary atresia is performed in tertiary children's hospitals in the United States. Improved ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among 19 autopsied cases of 17–18 trisomy syndrome, 10 confirmed by cytogenetic studies, nine diagnosed on the basis of phenotypic characteristics, seven cases of neonatal hepatitis were found, ...

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 a rare condition that affects newborns and young infants. One of the most noticeable signs of this condition is a change in stool, which may appear as early as the first few weeks ...

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 ...

Biliary atresia, a progressive sclerosis of the extrahepatic biliary tree that occurs only within the first 3 months of life, is one of the most common causes of neonatal cholestasis and accounts for ...