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. 2004 Jan;144(1):123-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2003.09.042.

Hepatic fibrosis and survival in biliary atresia

Viraine S Weerasooriya  1 , Frances V White, Ross W Shepherd
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Hepatic fibrosis and survival in biliary atresia

Viraine S Weerasooriya et al. J Pediatr. 2004 Jan.

Abstract

In biliary atresia, progression of hepatic fibrosis before the Kasai portoenterostomy may explain why age is a major determinant of survival of the native liver. Blinded fibrosis scoring of surgical liver biopsies demonstrated that age and fibrosis correlate. Those biopsies with severe fibrosis predicted significantly worse survival.

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