Jaundice at 14 days of age: exclude biliary atresia.

Emergencies in Neonatal Management: Jaundice and Biliary Atresia

A common reason for a delay in performing the necessary testing and making the correct diagnosis is neonatal age, which is a period in life commonly characterized by the presence of jaundice due to normal physiologic causes and breast feeding, resulting in transiently elevated unconjugated bilirubin levels which are typically self-limited and benign [1,2]. More rarely, neonatal jaundice is simp...

The Role of Appendix in the Management of Biliary Atresia Associated with Bowel Atresia

Biliary atresia is characterized by the progressive obliteration of extra- and intrahepatic biliary duct system leading to the obstruction of bile flow in infancy. The cause(s) of biliary atresia remain unclear and many surgical options for bypassing the atretic segment have been described.1-3 Biliary atresia may be associated with small bowel atresia.  The surgical interventions for biliary dr...

Biliary atresia

Biliary atresia (BA) is a cholangiodestructive disease affecting biliary tract, which ultimately leads to cirrhosis, liver failure and death if not treated. The incidence is higher in Asian countries than in Europe. Up to 10% of cases have other congenital anomalies, such as polysplenia, asplenia, situs inversus, absence of inferior vena cava and pre-duodenal portal vein, for which we have coin...

Biliary atresia.

Biliary atresia is a neonatal obstructive cholangiopathy characterized by a fibrosclerosing obliteration of the extrahepatic bile duct that uniquely presents in the first months of life (1). The condition occurs in approximately 1 in 8,000 to 1 in 15,000 live births and accounts for 30% of all cases of cholestasis in young infants. Biliary atresia is the most frequent cause of chronic end-stage...

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