Neonatal cholestasis as the presenting feature in cystic fibrosis.
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Neonatal cholestasis as the presenting feature in cystic fibrosis.
Between 1960 and 1994 cystic fibrosis was found in nine out of 1474 infants investigated for neonatal cholestasis. Four had delay in passing meconium. In all patients cholestatic jaundice was present during the first 48 hours and in three patients cholestasis was complete, mimicking biliary atresia. Serum cholesterol concentrations were normal in all but two children. Sweat chloride was repeate...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.75.1.67