Liver Diseases in Infancy and Childhood

✍ Scribed by Irwin M. Arias M.D. (auth.), Samuel R. Berenberg M.D. (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 259
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For almost four decades the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation has been con­ vening conferences relating to medicine, medical education, and health care in their broadest contexts. During the 1940s and 1950s the conferences focused on biomedical research, which was at that time in its golden age in the United States. As medical care and medical education ascended in importance, since the mid-1960s the conferences have been largely con­ centrated on topics in these fields. The Macy Foundation also fosters international conferences, and a major effort in recent years has been a rewarding collaboration with France's most distinguished medical statesman, Professor Robert Debre, and the Inter­ national Children's Centre in Paris, which he founded and directs. Nineteen seventy-five was an especially busy year for this Franco-American alliance: in April there was a seminar on 'The Family Doctor: France and the United States'; and, in June, a conference on 'Diseases of the Liver in Infancy and Childhood'. Earlier Franco-American conferences have been on 'Brain Development' (1972) and on 'Puberty' (1974). As with the others the participants in this conference on Liver Disease in Infancy and Childhood were drawn from the United States and Europe. We were especially pleased to have as three of the participants men who hold sabbatical awards as Macy Foundation Faculty Scholars, Ivan Dia­ mond, M.D., Ph.D., Thomas Starzl, M.D., Ph.D. and M. Michael Thaler, M.D.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Extracellular and Intracellular Transport of Bilirubin....Pages 1-17
Detection of Free Bilirubin: A Criterion for Exchange Transfusion....Pages 18-24
Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia....Pages 25-33
Breast-Feeding and Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia....Pages 34-40
Clinical Aspects of Liver Disease in Children with α-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency....Pages 41-45
Pathologic Liver Changes in Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficient Infants (Pi ZZ Phenotype)....Pages 46-51
Relationship between Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency and Liver Disease....Pages 52-71
Reye’s Syndrome: Cause-and-Effect Relationships....Pages 72-83
Hepatic Porto-Enterostomy. Surgical Problems and Results....Pages 84-96
Liver Replacement in Children....Pages 97-128
Intra-Hepatic Biliary Atresia (Hepatic Ductular Hypoplasia)....Pages 129-142
Bile Acid Sulfation and Cholestasis....Pages 143-147
Congenital Cholestasis: Clinical and Ultrastructural Study....Pages 148-162
Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Children....Pages 163-179
Transmission of Hepatitis B to Fetus and Infant....Pages 180-188
Neonatal Susceptibility to MHV3 Infection in Mice....Pages 189-192
Hepatitis B Vaccines....Pages 193-198
Hereditary Neonatal Cholestasis Combined with Vascular Malformations....Pages 199-206
Portal Hypertension in Early Childhood: Etiology and Diagnostic Procedures....Pages 207-210
Portal Hypertension in Early Childhood: Surgical Problems....Pages 211-222
Management of Portal Hypertension in Young Children by Portal Systemic Shunts....Pages 223-230
Liver Tumors....Pages 231-238
Closing Remarks....Pages 239-241
Back Matter....Pages 242-246

✦ Subjects

Internal Medicine; Pediatrics