Electromyographic study of the mechanism of postoperative cholangitis in congenital biliary atresia

1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Yagi ◽  
M. Iwafuchi ◽  
M. Uchiyama ◽  
K. Takano
Keyword(s):  
Biliary Atresia ◽  
Congenital Biliary Atresia

Congenital biliary atresia

1952 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 539-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Whitten ◽  
George C. Adie
Keyword(s):  
Biliary Atresia ◽  
Congenital Biliary Atresia

CONGENITAL BILIARY ATRESIA

1964 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-26
Author(s):  
Stephen Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Biliary Atresia ◽  
Congenital Biliary Atresia

A clinical and pathological study of congenital biliary atresia

1967 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 558-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keijiro Suruga ◽  
Kinji Nagashima ◽  
Yoshinori Hirai ◽  
Toshio Wagai ◽  
Michio Inui
Keyword(s):  
Biliary Atresia ◽  
Pathological Study ◽  
Congenital Biliary Atresia

scholarly journals Hepatic Hilar Lymph Node Reactivity at Kasai Portoenterostomy for Biliary Atresia: Correlations With Age, Outcome, and Histology of Proximal Biliary Remnant

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
KE Bove ◽  
R Sheridan ◽  
L Fei ◽  
R Anders ◽  
CT Chung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Nodes ◽  
Biliary Atresia ◽  
Cystic Duct ◽  
Secondary Infection ◽  
Age At Onset ◽  
Primary Response ◽  
Antigenic Stimulation ◽  
Hilar Lymph Node ◽  
Proximate Cause ◽  
Congenital Biliary Atresia

We hypothesized that if infection is the proximate cause of congenital biliary atresia, an appropriate response to antigen would occur in lymph nodes contiguous with the biliary remnant. We compared the number of follicular germinal centers (GC) in 79 surgically excised hilar lymph nodes (LN) and 27 incidentally discovered cystic duct LNs in 84 subjects at the time of hepatic portoenterostomy (HPE) for biliary atresia (BA) to autopsy controls from the pancreaticobiliary region of non-septic infants >3 months old at death. All 27 control LN lacked GC, a sign in infants of a primary response to antigenic stimulation. GC were found in 53% of 106 LN in 56 of 84 subjects. Visible surgically excised LN contiguous with the most proximal biliary remnants had 1 or more well-formed reactive GC in only 26/51 subjects. Presence of GC and number of GC/LN was unrelated to age at onset of jaundice or to active fibroplasia in the biliary remnant but was related to older age at HPE. Absent GC in visible and incidentally removed cystic duct LNs predicted survival with the native liver at 2 and 3 years after HPE, P = .03, but significance was lost at longer intervals. The uncommon inflammatory lesions occasionally found in remnants could be secondary either to bile-induced injury or secondary infection established as obstruction evolves. The absence of consistent evidence of antigenic stimulation in LN contiguous with the biliary remnant supports existence of at least 1 major alternative to infection in the etiology of biliary atresia.

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