MRI Findings in the Liver in Biliary Atresia Patients after the Kasai Operation.
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Biliary Atresia: 50 Years after the First Kasai
Biliary atresia is a rare neonatal disease of unknown etiology, where obstruction of the biliary tree causes severe cholestasis, leading to biliary cirrhosis and death in the first years of life, if the condition is left untreated. Biliary atresia is the most frequent surgical cause of cholestatic jaundice in neonates and should be evoked whenever this clinical sign is associated with pale stoo...
متن کاملA 25 years old women after Kasai operation for biliary atresia.
Manuscript received and accepted: 2 August and 15 September 2008 Biliary atresia is a rare disease characterized by a biliary obstruction of unknown origin that presents in the neonatal period. We present the magnetic resonance cholangiography (MRC) from a 25 years old women who was treated in the neonatal period with Kasai operation. The MRC reveals a choledochal cyst and shows multiple saccul...
متن کاملReview of redo-Kasai portoenterostomy for biliary atresia in the transition to the liver transplantation era
Portoenterostomy (PE) is the standard therapy for biliary atresia (BA). PE offers the chance of survival to children with BA. PE was the ultimate therapeutic modality for BA before liver transplantation (LT) was available. Failure of biliary drainage with PE was almost invariably fatal in children with BA. In such cases, redo-PE was performed to salvage patients following PE failure. PE remains...
متن کاملInguinal Hernias Represent the Most Frequent Surgical Complication after Kasai in Biliary Atresia Infants
Biliary atresia (BA) is an orphan medical condition of the newborn, resulting in end-stage liver cirrhosis due to obliterative cholangiopathy of the extrahepatic bile duct. Although Kasai's hepatoportoenterostomy (KPE) is the well-established first-line therapy, little is known about its surgical complications. 153 patients receiving open KPE treated at a single center between 1994 and 2014 wer...
متن کاملThe 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...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0040-8727,1349-3329
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.181.193