Long-term survival following Kasai portoenterostomy: Is chronic liver disease inevitable?

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 430-433

  Hadžić, Nedim ^a   Davenport, Mark ^a   Tizzard, Sarah ^a   Singer, Jeanette ^a   Howard, Edward R ^a   Mieli Vergani, Giorgina ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic liver disease; Extrahepatic biliary atresia; Kasai portoenterostomy; Liver transplantation; Long term prognosis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; PROTHROMBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CHILD; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENOSCOPY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTOENTEROSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BIOPSY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; INFANT; INTESTINE; LIVER; LIVER DISEASE; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PANCREAS; PATHOLOGY; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

BILIARY ATRESIA; BIOPSY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINES; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; PANCREAS; PORTOENTEROSTOMY, HEPATIC; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1542750442     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005176-200310000-00006     Document Type: Article

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