Biliary Atresia

Healio spoke with Ahmad Anouti, MD, about a presentation at The Liver Meeting on the prognostic value of reaching normal bilirubin levels after Kasai portoenterostomy in biliary atresia.

In this video, Ahmad Anouti, MD, a pediatric resident at UT Southwestern Medical Center, discusses the importance of serum values as prognostic indicators in biliary atresia, as well as identifying specific time points for follow-up.

Healio spoke with Ahmad Anouti, MD, a pediatric resident at UT Southwestern Medical Center, about his patient keynote address at The Liver Meeting, during which he discussed the importance of patient-centered care in liver disease.

Healio spoke with Ahmad Anouti, MD, a pediatric resident at UT Southwestern Medical Center, about a presentation at The Liver Meeting on how blocking nuclear factor kappa B could correct cellular defects in biliary atresia.

SAN DIEGO — A new ultrasound approach may help more quickly and less invasively identify infants with biliary atresia, according to research presented at The Liver Meeting.

More than 300 million people worldwide, including one in every 10 Americans, are living with a rare disease, yet these individuals and their families are often left isolated and without answers.

Offspring born to mothers with prenatal or third trimester intestinal infection or genitourinary tract infection experienced a significantly higher risk for biliary atresia, according to a study in JAMA Network Open.

Autoimmune liver diseases include primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and pediatric diseases such as biliary atresia and progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis. Researchers continue to investigate and develop potential treatments for both the diseases and their debilitating complications.

Liver disease in children and adolescents takes on as many forms as in adults, including viral hepatitis, autoimmune diseases, fatty liver disease, and even the pediatric-specific biliary atresia that occurs in infants.

A combined procedure using the Orbeye video microscope and Thunderbeat advanced energy surgical device from Olympus led to a successful liver transplantation in an infant patient at Holtz Children’s Hospital in Florida, according to a press release.