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 …

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 …

Biliary atresia is a progressive infantile cholangiopathy of complex pathogenesis. Although
early diagnosis and surgery are the best predictors of treatment response, current diagnostic …

Biliary atresia (BA) is a rapidly progressive and destructive fibrotic disorder of unknown
etiology affecting the extrahepatic biliary tree of neonates. Epidemiological studies suggest …

Abstract Background&Aims Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is characterized by chronic
inflammation and progressive fibrosis of the biliary tree. The bile acid receptor TGR5 is …

Objective To assess the diagnostic and prognostic usefulness of the serum matrix
metallopeptidase-7 (MMP-7) level for biliary atresia in infants with cholestasis after …

To evaluate the accuracy of biomarkers for the early diagnosis of biliary atresia (BA) and
prognostic stratification after Kasai portoenterostomy (KPE). We conducted a systematic …

Biliary atresia is a rare disease but remains the most common indication for pediatric liver
transplantation as there are no effective medical therapies to slow progression after …

We investigated the utility of transient elastography (TE) for diagnosing biliary atresia (BA) in
cholestatic infants and predicting the outcome of BA. Forty‐eight cholestatic infants (9‐87 …

Background Biliary atresia (BA) is a devastating inflammatory and fibrosing cholangiopathy
of neonates with unknown aetiology. We aim to investigate the relationship between these …