[HTML][HTML] The role of vitamin D and vitamin D binding protein in chronic liver diseases

TL Pop, C Sîrbe, G Benţa, A Mititelu… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vitamin D (calciferol) is a fat-soluble vitamin that has a significant role in phospho-calcium
metabolism, maintaining normal calcium levels and bone health development. The most …

Biliary atresia: a comprehensive review

B Lakshminarayanan, M Davenport - Journal of autoimmunity, 2016 - Elsevier
Biliary atresia presents as an obliterative cholangiopathy with neonatal jaundice and pale
stools. The disease exhibits aetiological heterogeneity with a multiplicity of potential …

Biliary atresia and other cholestatic childhood diseases: advances and future challenges

HJ Verkade, JA Bezerra, M Davenport… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Biliary Atresia and other cholestatic childhood diseases are rare conditions affecting the
function and/or anatomy along the canalicular-bile duct continuum, characterised by onset of …

[PDF][PDF] Biliary atresia: clinical and research challenges for the twenty‐first century

JA Bezerra, RG Wells, CL Mack, SJ Karpen… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Biliary atresia (BA) is a fibroinflammatory disease of the intrahepatic and extrahepatic biliary
tree. Surgical hepatic portoenterostomy (HPE) may restore bile drainage, but progression of …

[HTML][HTML] Innate immunity and pathogenesis of biliary atresia

A Ortiz-Perez, B Donnelly, H Temple, G Tiao… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Biliary atresia (BA) is a devastating fibro-inflammatory disease characterized by the
obstruction of extrahepatic and intrahepatic bile ducts in infants that can have fatal …

Management of biliary atresia in France 1986 to 2015: long-term results

M Fanna, G Masson, C Capito, M Girard… - Journal of pediatric …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: This study analyses the prognosis of biliary atresia (BA) in France since 1986,
when both Kasai operation (KOp) and liver transplantation (LT) became widely available …

[HTML][HTML] Biliary atresia: clinical phenotypes and aetiological heterogeneity

M Davenport, A Muntean, N Hadzic - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biliary atresia (BA) is an obliterative condition of the biliary tract that presents with persistent
jaundice and pale stools typically in the first few weeks of life. While this phenotypic …

[HTML][HTML] Current concepts of biliary atresia and matrix metalloproteinase-7: a review of literature

M Nomden, L Beljaars, HJ Verkade… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Biliary atresia (BA) is a rare cholangiopathy of infancy in which the bile ducts obliterate,
leading to profound cholestasis and liver fibrosis. BA is hypothesized to be caused by a viral …

Advances in paediatric gastroenterology

PKH Tam, PHY Chung, SD St Peter, CP Gayer… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Recent developments in paediatric gastrointestinal surgery have focused on minimally
invasive surgery, the accumulation of high-quality clinical evidence, and scientific research …

Biliary atresia as a disease starting in utero: implications for treatment, diagnosis, and pathogenesis

KR Mysore, BL Shneider… - Journal of pediatric …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Biliary atresia (BA) is the most common reason for pediatric liver transplant. BA's varied
presentation, natural history, and treatment with the Kasai portoenterostomy have been well …