Background The etiologies of conjugated hyperbilirubinemia in infancy are diverse.
Objective Determine the prevalence rates of the specific etiologies of conjugated …

Neonatal and infantile cholestasis (NIC) can represent the onset of a surgically correctable
disease and of a genetic or metabolic disorder worthy of medical treatment. Timely …

Background. The polysplenia syndrome is the most common extrahepatic anomaly found in
association with extrahepatic biliary atresia. This subgroup may have a different cause and a …

EXTRAHEPATC biliary atresia (EHBA), the commonest life-threatening hepatobiliary
disorder in childhood, affects at least 1 in 20 000 liveborn infants.'Bile drainage can be …

The purpose of this retrospective study was to examine liver tissue from patients with
cholestatic disease for the presence of group C rotavirus RNA. The reverse transcriptase …

Background: In addition to earlier reports on the association between viral infections and
intrahepatic neonatal cholestasis, in recent studies, investigators have suggested a similar …

SummaryThe clinical presentations of cholestasis in infancy caused by neonatal hepatitis
and biliary atresia are very similar. Diagnosis may be difficult on many occasions, but the …

Objective: To study the incidence, etiologic risk factors, and outcome of biliary atresia. Study
design: Register study using Swedish national health databases. The study population …

AIM: To retrospectively analyze different methods in differentiating biliary atresia from
idiopathic neonatal hepatitis. METHODS: Sixty-nine infants with cholestatic jaundice and …

Among 200,000 infants screened for α1-antitrypsin (α1-AT) deficiency, 125 Pi Z, 48 Pi SZ, 1
Pi S-, and 2 Pi Z-children were followed up prospectively. Eleven percent of the Pi Z infants …