Lithocholic acid (LCA) is a hepatotoxic compound. Fetal LCA might play a role in the pathogenesis of neonatal cholestasis/EHBA. Recent results show that fetal liver has capacity for hydroxylations ...

In 1974, Benjamin Landing, a pediatric pathologist, proposed that biliary atresia, as well as choledochal cyst and neonatal hepatitis, represented varied manifestations of a single basic disease ...

Abstract Biliary atresia, a progressive sclerosis of the extrahepatic biliary tree that occurs only within the first 3 months of life, is one of the most common causes of neonatal cholestasis and ...

Sarah Love was a little taken aback when a stranger approached her and made an unusual comment about her newborn son's skin ...

and neonatal obstructive cholestasis (biliary atresia). Clinical and nutritional challenges of preterm infants. Clinicians are faced with important questions about the fundamental choices of how and ...