Biliary atresia

The American Liver Foundation (ALF) has brought its “Bili the Brave” children’s book to life with a new animated video that aims to support…

Infants with cystic biliary atresia (CBA) tend to undergo standard Kasai surgery earlier than those with other forms of biliary atresia, and generally have…

February is Rare Liver Diseases Month, and this year, the Global Liver Institute (GLI) is highlighting the importance of early diagnosis for better health…

Half of biliary atresia patients who have undergone standard Kasai surgery develop a serious liver complication called portal hypertension (PH), and this is linked…

AX-0810, an experimental treatment for biliary atresia and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), has so far been well tolerated in early clinical testing. Initial…

About half of children with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) were found to have cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (CCM), a form of heart disease, in a…

Using a minimally invasive method called laparoscopy to conduct standard Kasai surgery significantly reduces blood loss and increases the chances of jaundice clearance compared with…

Therapy using stem cells derived from donor umbilical cords may help improve outcomes in infants with biliary atresia who have undergone standard Kasai surgery,…

For infants with biliary atresia, undergoing standard Kasai surgery — a procedure to restore the flow of the digestive fluid bile in the body…

AX-0810, an experimental medication Proqr Therapeutics is developing for biliary atresia and another liver disease called primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), is about to…