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 ...

Biliary atresia is a rare condition that affects the bile ducts in infants. It can cause bile to build up in the liver, causing damage. It can be life threatening, but treatment may improve ...

In a clinical report issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published online Feb. 18 in Pediatrics, recommendations are presented to assist primary care providers in identifying biliary ...

My baby was diagnosed with biliary atresia when he was 2 months old. While Google helped me identify his symptoms, it was a doctor who listened and diagnosed him. He had surgery to repair his bile ...

Biliary atresia is a rare, devastating disease of infants where a fibroinflammatory process destroys the bile ducts, leading to fibrosis and biliary cirrhosis, and death if untreated. The cause and ...

A nationwide consortium of researchers has identified the first genetic defect linked to biliary atresia, a mysterious liver disease that is the leading cause for liver transplantation in children.

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with other maternal infections, intestinal infection and genitourinary tract infection increased the ...

A research team from China characterized the differentially expressed gene profiles in livers from biliary atresia (BA) patients. They found that RRAS gene and its related MAPK pathway are important ...

ATLANTA - They say becoming a mother is like watching your heartbeat outside your own body. But 6-year-old Julia Navarro and her mother, Analy, give that saying new meaning. Childbirth is already ...

In 1974, Benjamin Landing, a pediatric pathologist, proposed that biliary atresia, as well as choledochal cyst and neonatal hepatitis, represented varied manifestations of a single basic disease ...

Scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have identified an expression pattern of 14 genes at the time of diagnosis that predicts two year, transplant-free survival in children with ...