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A genome-wide association study identifies a susceptibility locus for biliary atresia on 2p16.1 within the gene EFEMP1 [PDF]
Biliary atresia (BA) is a rare pediatric cholangiopathy characterized by fibrosclerosing obliteration of the extrahepatic bile ducts, leading to cholestasis, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and eventual liver failure.
Bailey-Wilson, Joan E +12 more
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Inflammation, Active Fibroplasia, and End-stage Fibrosis in 172 Biliary Atresia Remnants Correlate Poorly With Age at Kasai Portoenterostomy, Visceral Heterotaxy, and Outcome [PDF]
Published histologic studies of the hilar plate or entire biliary remnant at the time of Kasai portoenterostomy (KHPE) have not provided deep insight into the pathogenesis of biliary atresia, relation to age at surgery, prognosis or the basis for ...
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Weaning of immunosuppression in long - Term liver transplant recipients [PDF]
Seventy-two long-surviving liver transplant recipients were evaluated prospectively, including a baseline allograft biopsy for weaning off of immunosuppression.
Abu-Elmagd, K +11 more
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Transplantation in children [PDF]
Kidney transplantation in very young children, less than 2 years of age, has usually failed, mainly because of difficulties maintaining these patients on hemodialysis long enough to permit retransplantation after loss of the original graft.
Charles W. Putnam +15 more
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Indications for pediatric liver transplantation [PDF]
Two hundred fifty pediatric (
Andreas G. Tzakis +21 more
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Cyclosporine Absorption Following Orthotopic Liver Transplantation [PDF]
Blood concentrations of cyclosporine were determined in adult and pediatric patients following orthotopic liver transplantation to quantitate cyclosporine blood clearance and oral absorption.
Beveridge +20 more
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Colonic Atresia Associated with Biliary Atresia
Colonic atresia (CA) is an uncommon type of intestinal atresia commonly associated with other anomalies, while biliary atresia (BA) is also rare but usually an isolated anomaly. The pathogenesis for either of the anomalies is unclear. The co-occurrence of both pathologies has not been mentioned in the literature.
Shailesh Solanki +3 more
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Liver transplantation before 1 year of age [PDF]
Since 1981, 20 infants younger than 1 year of age received 26 orthotopic liver transplants. Immunosuppression was with cyclosporine and corticosteroids. Thirteen (65%) of the reciplents were discharged from the hospital.
Ascher +18 more
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ABSTRACT FOXA2 (hepatocyte nuclear factor‐3β, HNF‐3β) encodes a transcriptional activator involved in early embryogenesis, particularly in the patterning and differentiation of midline structures such as the neural tube, foregut, and pituitary gland. Its role in human pathogenesis was first suspected when patients with deletion of chromosome 20p11.2 ...
Christopher Connolly +3 more
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ABSTRACT The rare X‐linked female‐restricted Hardikar syndrome (HDKR, OMIM # 301068) is characterized by multiple congenital anomalies including orofacial clefts, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and cardiac anomalies, but cognitive and neurobehavioral development is rarely impaired.
Tinne Warmoeskerken +4 more
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