The Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center (CGHMC) and Shanghai’s Renji Hospital conducted a successful liver transplant ...

Bride Jenny Tice was walked down the aisle at her Jan. 31 wedding by Dr. Carlos Esquivel, the pediatric transplant surgeon ...

Objectives: After completion of this article, the reader should understand (1) the theories of causation of biliary atresia, (2), the data supporting involvement of viral infection in pathogenesis ...

The underlying stimulus for the immune-mediated bile duct injury in biliary atresia may involve an insult (e.g., viral infection) to the bile duct epithelium that leads to upregulation of ICAM and ...

The authors note the initial direct or conjugated bilirubin level will be high in biliary atresia, starting at birth. Skin and stool color should continue to be monitored even if the bilirubin ...

A one-year-and-nine-month-old Filipino child battling Biliary Atresia, a rare liver disease, is heading to China for a liver transplant surgery. This marks the first liver transplant surgery for a ...