Biliary atresia

Biliary atresia is a chronic, progressive liver problem that becomes evident shortly after birth. Tubes inside and outside the liver, called bile ducts, normally allow a liquid produced by the liver called bile to drain into the intestines.
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Biliary atresia
Definition:
Biliary atresia is an obstruction of the bile ducts caused by their failure to develop normally in the fetus. This is a congenital condition (present at birth).
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Biliary atresia results in a progressive inflammatory process which may lead to cirrhosis of the liver.
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Biliary atresia is a rare form of bile duct blockage that occurs in some infants two weeks to six weeks after birth, a time when the bile ducts have not completed their development normally.
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Biliary Atresia
Biliary Calculus (Choledocholithiasis)
Biliary Disease (Gallbladder Disease)
Biliary Obstruction
Biliary Stricture ...
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In biliary atresia, the bile ducts are actually absent, also causing jaundice. Cancer can also affect the liver, usually after malignancy spreads from the stomach, pancreas or large intestine.
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Babies sometimes develop cirrhosis as a result of biliary atresia — a condition in which the bile ducts are closed or missing at birth.
Prolonged exposure to toxic materials.
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disorders present since birth that cause problems processing bilirubin (Gilbert's syndrome, Dubin-Johnson syndrome, Rotor's syndrome, or Crigler-Najjar syndromes)
biliary atresia
autoimmune hepatitis
malaria ...
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Other factors which can potentiate jaundice in the newborn include: sepsis, biliary atresia, Rh incompatibility, galactosemia, cephalohematoma, polycythemia, G-6-P-D deficiency, and congenital rubella, syphilis, toxoplasmosis, ...
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