Biliary Atresia Outcome in Egypt:A Descriptive Study
- Resource Type
- Authors
- M. M. Khedr; Gamal H. Eltagy; Alaa A. El. Sayed; Omar Nagy Abdelhakeem
- Source
- Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development. 11:1669
- Subject
- Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
medicine.medical_treatment
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Mean age
Jaundice
Liver transplantation
medicine.disease
Single Center
Key point
Biliary atresia
medicine
medicine.symptom
business
Rare disease
- Language
- ISSN
- 0976-5506
0976-0245
Biliary atresia is a rare disease that affects children and neonates, nowadays the current management of BA is portoenterostomy with or without liver transplantation, in this study we described the outcome of BA in single center. We included 48 patients in this study with type 3 BA and measured the incidence of clearance of jaundice and cholangitis the incidence of clearance of jaundice was 43% and cholangitis was 20% also the mean age was 74.6 ± 21.8 days which is quiet high. We concluded that early diagnosis and centralization is the key point for getting best outcome for patients of BA.