Biliary atresia: clinical aspects

M Davenport - Seminars in pediatric surgery, 2012 - Elsevier
… In this study, Willot et al 38 assessed the effect of UDCA on liver function in children aged
>1 … Prospective evaluation of the macroscopic features of the hepatobiliary elements (hardness …

Steroids in biliary atresia: single surgeon, single centre, prospective study

M Davenport, C Parsons, S Tizzard, N Hadzic - Journal of hepatology, 2013 - Elsevier
Biliary atresia is a potentially lethal disease affecting the developing biliary tract which … the
native liver by excision of solid extrahepatic biliary remnants and reconstruction using a Roux …

Initial assessment of the infant with neonatal cholestasis—is this biliary atresia?

BL Shneider, J Moore, N Kerkar, JC Magee, W Ye… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Optimizing outcome in biliary atresia (BA) requires timely diagnosis. Cholestasis
is a presenting feature of BA, as well as other diagnoses (Non-BA). Identification of clinical …

Development and validation of bile acid profile-based scoring system for identification of biliary atresia: a prospective study

D Zhao, K Zhou, Y Chen, W Xie, Y Zhang - BMC pediatrics, 2020 - Springer
… difference between biliary atresia and non-biliary atresia infants were … assessed in this
study, GCDCA/CDCA ratio, γ-GT, and clay stool were selected from a multiple clinical assessment

Clinical assessment of differential diagnostic methods in infants with cholestasis due to biliary atresia or non-biliary atresia

C Dong, H Zhu, Y Chen, X Luo, Z Huang - Current Medical Science, 2018 - Springer
… Summary: The different methods in differentiating biliary atresia (BA) from non-BA-related …
396 infants with cholestatic jaundice were studied prospectively during the period of May 2007 …

Prospective assessment of ultrasound shear wave elastography for discriminating biliary atresia from other causes of neonatal cholestasis

JR Dillman, FW DiPaola, SJ Smith, RA Barth… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
… out the diagnosis of biliary atresia and to determine … prospectively assess the diagnostic
performance of two-dimensional (2D) and point ultrasound SWE for discriminating biliary atresia

Biliary atresia

JL Hartley, M Davenport, DA Kelly - The Lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
… Some cases of isolated biliary atresia are associated with cystic change within the obliterated
biliary tree—termed cystic biliary atresia. At least half of these cases are detectable on …

Diagnostic yield of newborn screening for biliary atresia using direct or conjugated bilirubin measurements

S Harpavat, JA Garcia-Prats, C Anaya, ML Brandt… - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
… A multicenter study of the outcome of biliary atresia in the United States, 1997 to 2000. …
Additional simulations using new information (including data from this study) can further assess

Biliary Atresia: US Diagnosis1

TM Humphrey, MD Stringer - Radiology, 2007 - pubs.rsna.org
biliary atresia (BA) is challenging because no single preoperative investigation enables the
diagnosis to be made with certainty. Liver biochemistry assessment, biliaryprospectively

Long-term results and quality of life assessment in biliary atresia patients: a 35-year experience in a tertiary hospital

CWY Wong, PHY Chung, PKH Tam… - Journal of pediatric …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
… We analyzed our 35-year experience with biliary atresia and … Biliary atresia (BA) is a rare
neonatal cholestatic disease of … cholangiopathy, resulting in biliary obstruction and jaundice (1) …