aim : the aim of this study was to review our experience with gestations in autoimmune hepatitis patients. background : there are only limited data describing pregnancy in patients with autoimmune hepatitis. patients and methods : retrospective analysis of pregnancies with autoimmune hepatitis followed in centro hospitalar do porto, portugal in the last ten years. results : we reported nine pre...

1. List the age-specific causes of liver disease in neonates, infants, older children, and adolescents. 2. Explain why fractionation of serum bilirubin is necessary in infants who remain jaundiced after 2 weeks of age. 3. Characterize the syndrome of “neonatal hepatitis” and explain how it differs from viral hepatitis. 4. Characterize biliary atresia and identify findings from the history, phys...

Neonatal lupus erythematosus is an immune-mediated disease that rarely is associated with congenital heart block. Transient hepatitis, thrombocytopenia and anemia can also occur. We describe a case of neonatal lupus erythematosus and review the clinical and laboratory manifestations of this rare disease. Its only clinical sign might be an annular facial rash. The rash is usually diagnostic, but...