… The purpose of this study was to exclude HCV as an etiologic agent for biliary atresia. Although
… that hepatitis C virus does not play a causative role in the pathogenesis of biliary atresia. …

… Biliary atresia is a progressive fibrosing obstructive cholangiopathy of the intrahepatic
and extrahepatic biliary system, resulting in obstruction of bile flow and neonatal jaundice. …

… Biliary atresia (BA) is a childhood disease which manifests with abnormal narrowing,
blockage or complete absence of bile ducts within the liver. Many possible etiologies have been …

… Biliary atresia (BA) is an obliterative condition of the biliary tract that presents with persistent
… such as the syndromic variants of biliary atresia splenic malformation or cat-eye syndrome, …

… During the past 20 years, numerous studies exploring a viral etiology were published, though
none have been fully substantiated. The common hepatotropic viruses A, B and C have all …

… To explore the evidence for viral infections triggering human biliary atresia (BA) by … -Barr
virus, the herpes simplex virus and the varicella zoster virus), the hepatitis B and C viruses, …

… Similarly, IL-10 polymorphisms have been linked to disease progression in patients with
hepatitis C viral and alcoholic hepatitis ( 79,80 ). These studies raised the possibility that …

… Biliary atresia (BA) is the most frequent indication for paediatric liver transplantation. We
tested the hypothesis of a viral … for the common human hepatotropic viruses. Moreover, we …

… cyst, neonatal hepatitis and biliary atresia in the 1970s invoking the influence of a
hepatotropic virus capable of causing cholangiolar and actual structural bile duct damage (“infantile …

… cause or trigger of biliary atresia though clinical evidence is scant. We hypothesised that
CMV IgM+ve biliary atresia is a separate clinical entity compared to CMV IgM−ve biliary atresia. …