Biliary atresia and survival into adulthood without transplantation: A collaborative multicentre clinic review

Liver International

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 510-518

  Kumagi, Teru ^a,b   Drenth, Joost P H ^c   Guttman, Orlee ^d   Ng, Vicky ^d   Lilly, Les ^e,f   Therapondos, George ^e,f   Hiasa, Yoichi ^b   Michitaka, Kojiro ^b   Onji, Morikazu ^b   Watanabe, Yuji ^b   Sen, Sambit ^g   Griffiths, William ^g   Roberts, Eve ^d   Heathcote, Jenny ^a,f   Hirschfield, Gideon M ^a,f  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^e TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biliary atresia; Cholangitis; Native liver; Portal hypertension

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BILIRUBIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIAL CHOLANGITIS; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BILE DUCT DILATATION; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHILDHOOD; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; JAUNDICE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OSTEOPOROSIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL HYPERTENSIVE GASTROPATHY; PORTOENTEROSTOMY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRURITUS; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SPLENOMEGALY; STOMACH DISEASE; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; BILIARY ATRESIA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTOENTEROSTOMY, HEPATIC; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856652157     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2011.02668.x     Document Type: Article

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