A case report of a challenging diagnosis of biliary atresia in a patient receiving total parenteral nutrition

BACKGROUND: Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) and biliary atresia (BA) are common causes of cholestasis in infancy. The diagnosis of BA is time sensitive due to an inverse correlation between age at intervention (hepatic portoenterostomy - HPE) and survival without liver transplantation. Clinical, la...

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Autores principales: Agawu, Atu, Wehrman, Andrew, Pogoriler, Jennifer, Terry, Natalie A., Lin, Henry C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30849955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-019-1446-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30849955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-019-1446-2

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