Biliary atresia (BA) is a rare disease of unknown etiology and unpredictable outcome, even
when there has been timely diagnosis and exemplary surgery. It has been the commonest …

Biliary atresia is a mystifying cause of neonatal cholestasis, manifested by progressive
inflammation and fibrosis of both the extrahepatic and intrahepatic bile ducts. It is a …

Background and aims Perinatal cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a possible cause or
trigger of biliary atresia though clinical evidence is scant. We hypothesised that CMV IgM+ …

The etiology of biliary atresia (BA) is unknown. Given that patterns of anomalies might
provide etiopathogenetic clues, we used data from the North American Childhood Liver …

Biliary atresia (BA) is a progressive, inflammatory cholangiopathy that culminates in fibrosis
of extrahepatic and intrahepatic bile ducts. A leading theory on the pathogenesis of BA is …

Biliary atresia (BA) is the most frequent indication for paediatric liver transplantation. We
tested the hypothesis of a viral aetiology of this disease by screening liver samples of a large …

Aims. The aims of this study were to detect the infection rates of DNA viruses in liver tissue of
biliary atresia and to investigate the effect of perinatal infection of cytomegalovirus in biliary …

Biliary atresia (BA) is a childhood disease which manifests with abnormal narrowing,
blockage or complete absence of bile ducts within the liver. Many possible etiologies have …

Aim of study CMV-IgM+ ve associated biliary atresia (CMV-BA) is a distinct etiological
subgroup characterized by older age at presentation and a greater degree of inflammation …

Background Biliary atresia (BA), a cholangiopathy of unknown etiology is associated with
intrahepatic mononuclear cell infiltrate. An abnormal reaction to viral exposure has been …