Detection of Group C Rotavirus in Infants with Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia

Detection of group C rotavirus in infants with extrahepatic biliary atresia.

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-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for genes 5 and 6 was used, and the PCR products were subjected to liquid hybridization with a 32P-labeled probe. A second amplification with nested primers was also used. Samples from 32 s...

Aflatoxins in Infants with Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia

Background: Aflatoxin B 1 induced hepatitis was reported to be associated with characteristic features of centrizonal scarring, hepatic venous occlusion, ductular proliferation and cholestasis, focal syncytial giant cell giant cell transformation of hepatocytes, and pericelluar fibrosis which is congruent to biopsy findings in extra hepatic biliary atresia (EHBA). Aim of Work: Is to study aflat...

Mexican infants with extrahepatic biliary atresia display different fibrosis activity

Although biliary obstruction in extrahepatic biliary atresia (EHBA) patients can be surgically alleviated by hepatoportoenterostomy (Kasai surgery), most patients will eventually develop severe hepatic fibrosis with short life expectancy. Cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in this process are largely unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the potential correlation between fibro...

Congenital Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia

Case 1. The elder of two sibs, this boy was born on May 21, 1965 to unrelated healthy parents aged 29 (mother) and 30 years (father). Birthweight was 2820 g.; delivery was by forceps. His mother had 'influenza' between the fifth and sixth months of the pregnancy which had been otherwise normal. There was no previous foetal loss. Four generations of the family, comprising, in addition to the par...

Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia