biliary atresia

Biliary atresia seems to affect girls slightly more often than boys.

Mutations in this gene have also been associated with biliary atresia.

The girl has suffered since birth from a usually fatal disorder called biliary atresia.

This could help find treatments for the one in 10,000 babies born with a similar condition, known as biliary atresia.

There is no known cause of biliary atresia.

The most common reason in children is biliary atresia, a disease of the bile ducts.

Assessment of the nutritional status of infants and children with biliary atresia.

Shania was born with biliary atresia, a liver disease that affects one out of every 10,000 children.

The exact cause of extrahepatic biliary atresia is unknown.

A rare form of bile duct disease called biliary atresia occurs in infants.

This means that the etiology and pathogenesis of biliary atresia are largely unknown.

Timmy was diagnosed with biliary atresia upon birth.

There are three main types of extrahepatic biliary atresia:

Alyssa suffered from biliary atresia, an often-fatal congenital liver disorder.

Linda suffers from biliary atresia, an abnormality in which the bile duct is blocked.

In infants with biliary atresia, hepatoportoenterostomy is an alternative method of providing bile drainage.

These symptoms, along with a liver biopsy and blood tests, are needed to distinguish biliary atresia from neonatal hepatitis.

Biliary atresia (malformation of the bile ducts).

Erythroblastosis fetalis and biliary atresia are diseases which may cause teeth to appear green from the deposition of biliverdin.

Bile was unable to be passed through her intestines, which eventually damaged her liver, causing a biliary atresia.

Hepatitis C is next, followed by biliary atresia, a congenital malformation of the organ; liver cancer is way down on the list.

Patients with biliary atresia may require a Kasai procedure to improve bile drainage; however, later liver transplantation is still often necessary.

A hepatoportoenterostomy, or Kasai portoenterostomy is a surgical treatment performed on infants with biliary atresia to allow for bile drainage.

Most babies who need liver transplants have a congenital condition, biliary atresia, in which ducts that carry bile from the liver are blocked.

WEAVER: 16-year-old, unconscious, history of biliary atresia.