Executive summary Liver diseases have become a major health threat across Europe, and
the face of European hepatology is changing due to the cure of viral hepatitis C and the …

Executive summary Liver disease in the UK stands out as the one glaring exception to the
vast improvements made during the past 30 years in health and life expectancy for chronic …

Cholestatic jaundice in infancy affects approximately 1 in every 2500 term infants and is
infrequently recognized by primary providers in the setting of physiologic jaundice …

Biliary atresia is a rare disease of infancy, which has changed within 30 years from being
fatal to being a disorder for which effective palliative surgery or curative liver transplantation …

Biliary atresia is a severe cholangiopathy of early infancy that destroys extrahepatic bile
ducts and disrupts bile flow. With a poorly defined disease pathogenesis, treatment consists …

Background Following a reduction in global child mortality due to communicable diseases,
the relative contribution of congenital anomalies to child mortality is increasing. Although …

Background and methods Volume of surgery and specialization may affect patient outcome.
Articles examining the effects of one or more of three variables (hospital volume of surgery …

INTRODUCTION: Biliary atresia (BA) is a rare, potentially life-threatening condition of the
newborn presenting with conjugated jaundice. Typically, it is treated by an initial attempt to …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: This study analyses the prognosis of biliary atresia (BA) in France
since liver transplantation (LT) became widely available. METHODS: The charts of all BA …

For the primary care provider, cholestatic jaundice in infancy, defined as jaundice caused by
an elevated conjugated bilirubin, is an uncommon but potentially serious problem that …