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Abstract Upper gastrointestinal stenosis, which can be congenital or acquired, can lead to dysphagia. The association between trisomy 17p syndrome, a rare chromosomal abnormality, and upper gastrointestinal stenosis is unclear. A 20‐year‐old man diagnosed with trisomy 17p syndrome was referred to our department due to recurrent vomiting ...
Hiroko Ando+9 more
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Biliary Atresia – An Easily Missed Cause of Jaundice amongst Children in Uganda [PDF]
Back ground: Biliary atresia is characterized by biliary obstruction, it has an incidence of 1:15000 and presents with jaundice, acholic stools / dark urine and hepatomegaly.
Kakembo, N+3 more
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Abstract Objectives Paucity of data and concerns about potential lower effectiveness and more adverse events limit the use of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and endoscopic cystogastrostomy in younger children even in high‐volume centers.
Ujjal Poddar+7 more
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Differential diagnosis of neonatal cholestasis by genetic testing: A case report
Introduction: Alagille syndrome (ALGS) is a cholestasis disorder with multiple organ dysfunction, including heart and kidney. The causative genes of ALGS are JAG1 and NOTCH2.
Sakura Kawahara+9 more
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Hepatocellular carcinoma in the native liver of a 38-year-old female patient with biliary atresia
We report a rare case of hepatocellular carcinoma in native liver in a case of biliary atresia. The patient was a 38-year-old female with three children who had an aggressive tumor, resulting in her subsequent death.
Yutaka Kanamori+7 more
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The Surgery of Biliary Atresia
One hundred thirty-one consecutive infants with biliary atresia were operated on during the 15-year period between 1973 and 1988. Six patients did not have biliary reconstruction because of advanced cirrhosis or transplant preference. The other 125 infants had excision of all nonpatent extrahepatic bile ducts; biliary drainage was provided by a ...
Gerhard P. J. Schröter+7 more
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Circulating Growth Differentiation Factor 15 (GDF15) in Paediatric Disease: A Systematic Review
ABSTRACT Background Growth Differentiation Factor 15 (GDF15), a nonspecific inflammatory marker and member of the TGF‐β superfamily, has a well‐established role in both inflammation and metabolic modulation, but lacks a comprehensive paediatric literature review.
David W. Kronenberger+3 more
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Statistical Inference on Transformation Models: a Self-induced Smoothing Approach [PDF]
This paper deals with a general class of transformation models that contains many important semiparametric regression models as special cases. It develops a self-induced smoothing for the maximum rank correlation estimator, resulting in simultaneous point and variance estimation.
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ABSTRACT Preemptive therapy (PET) is safe and effective in controlling Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection after pediatric liver transplantation (LT) and allows to observe the kinetics of quantitative CMV‐DNA viral load till it reaches the treatment thresholds.
Emanuele Nicastro+15 more
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