Biliary atresia is the most frequent cause of chronic cholestasis in infants. When left untreated, this condition leads to death from liver insufficiencywithin the first 2 yr of life. The modern therapeutic approach consists of a sequential strategy with Kasai portoenterostomy as a first step and, i
✦ LIBER ✦
Optimal treatment of biliary atresia—“halfway” there!
✍ Scribed by Jeffrey A. Rudolph; William F. Balistreri
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 54 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
Sequential treatment of biliary atresia
✍
Jean-Bernard Otte; Jean De Ville De Goyet; Raymond Reding; Victoria Hausleithner
📂
Article
📅
1994
🏛
John Wiley and Sons
🌐
English
⚖ 864 KB
Cooperation of innate and adaptive immun
✍
Alexandra Sharland; Mark D. Gorrell
📂
Article
📅
2009
🏛
John Wiley and Sons
🌐
English
⚖ 559 KB
Biliary atresia is a neonatal obstructive cholangiopathy that progresses to end-stage liver disease. Although the etiology is unknown, a neonatal adaptive immune signature has been mechanistically linked to obstruction of the extrahepatic bile ducts. Here, we investigated the role of the innate immu