Biliary atresia

Biliary atresia is a rare liver disease affecting infants, in which the ducts that carry the digestive fluid bile from the liver to the small intestine are blocked.

The first-line treatment for biliary atresia, a disorder in which certain bile ducts outside the liver are blocked or absent, typically is a surgical procedure called a Kasai portoenterostomy, which aims to restore the normal flow of bile in the patient’s body.