Kobayashi, A., Kawai, S., Utsunomiya, T., and Ohbe, Y. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 641. Bone disease in infants and children with hepatobiliary disease. Radiological studies of bone were performed in infants and children with hepatobiliary disease. Rickets was found in 23 out of 39 patients (59%) with surgically unrepaired biliary atresia, in 4 out of 15 (27%) with surgically ...

AIM To retrospectively analyze different methods in differentiating biliary atresia from idiopathic neonatal hepatitis. METHODS Sixty-nine infants with cholestatic jaundice and final diagnosis of idiopathic neonatal hepatitis (INH) and biliary atresia (BA) were studied retroprospectively from January 2004 to December 2006. A thorough history and physical examination were undertaken. All cases...

INTRODUCTION This study determined any clinical features which may help to differentiate biliary atresia (BA) from other causes of neonatal cholestasis (NC). MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective and observational study was conducted on consecutive infants with NC referred to the University of Malaya Medical Centre, Malaysia, between November 1996 and May 2004. RESULTS The 3 most common cause...

Early detection is the most effective way to improve the clinical outcome of biliary atresia (BA). Emerging metabolomics provides a powerful platform for discovering novel biomarkers and biochemical pathways to improve early diagnosis. The aim of this study is to find the potential biomarkers to distinguish BA from neonatal hepatitis syndrome (NHS) by using a metabolomics method. We comprehensi...

BACKGROUND Newborns who have received hepatitis B immunization in 1980s are now young adults joining healthcare disciplines. The need for booster, pre- and post-booster checks becomes a practical question. AIMS The aim of this study is to refine the HBV vaccination policy for newly admitted students in the future. METHODS A prospective study on medical and nursing school entrants to evaluat...

Background: Hepatitis B is the most common chronic viral infection and a significant contributor to morbidity death globally. Based on mother's hepatitis e antigen (HBeAg) status, probability of perinatal HBV in children delivered mothers with ranges from 10% 85%.Aim: determine prevalence virus among women childbearing age eastern region Algeria investigate risk factors for recommend ways reduc...

It is unclear whether a mother who is negative for hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) but positive for hepatitis B virus (HBV) is at potential risk for mother-to-child transmission of HBV. This study, using a paired mother-teenager population, aimed to assess whether maternal HBsAg-negative HBV infection ((hn)HBI) is a significant source of child HBV infection (HBI). A follow-up study wi...

INTRODUCTION Extra-hepatic biliary atresia (EHBA) is an important cause of neonatal cholestasis. Several infectious agents have been proposed as etiologic factors such as Rotavirus and Reovirus. There is limited data on the role of Epstein Barr virus (EBV) infection in EHBA, so we decided to study the presence of EBV virus in a series of 16 proven EHBA cases by chromogenic in situ hybridization...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to assess perinatal outcome of pregnancy burdened with maternal addiction in comparison with an unselected population from a European transition country. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data on pregnancies complicated by illicit drug abuse (n = 85) managed during a 10-year period (1997-2007) at Split University Hospital were analyzed. Data on the type of drug, course of...