"Biliary Atresia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Progressive destruction or the absence of all or part of the extrahepatic BILE DUCTS, resulting in the complete obstruction of BILE flow. Usually, biliary atresia is found in infants and accounts for one third of the neonatal cholestatic JAUNDICE.
| Descriptor ID |
D001656
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C06.130.120.123 C06.198.125 C16.131.314.125
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| Concept/Terms |
Biliary Atresia- Biliary Atresia
- Biliary Atresia, Extrahepatic
- Atresia, Extrahepatic Biliary
- Biliary Atresias, Extrahepatic
- Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia
- Extrahepatic Biliary Atresias
- Atresia, Biliary
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Biliary Atresia" by people in Profiles.
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"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall"? Pediatric liver transplantation in the case of situs inversus totalis with a disrupted inferior vena cava. Pediatr Transplant. 2018 08; 22(5):e13218.
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The sensei of Sendai: correcting the uncorrectable. Hepatology. 2003 Apr; 37(4):952-5.
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Quantitation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D by radioimmunoassay using radioiodinated tracers. Methods Enzymol. 1997; 282:174-86.
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d-Alpha-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol-1000 succinate enhances the absorption of vitamin D in chronic cholestatic liver disease of infancy and childhood. Pediatr Res. 1992 Feb; 31(2):146-50.
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Bone disease in chronic childhood cholestasis. II. Better absorption of 25-OH vitamin D than vitamin D in extrahepatic biliary atresia. Pediatr Res. 1990 Jan; 27(1):26-31.