https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29898778 Biliary Atresia

BMC Res Notes. 2018 Jun 13;11(1):381. doi: 10.1186/s13104-018-3498-z.
Liver transplant score for prediction of biliary atresia patients' survival following Kasai procedure.Gunadi1, Gunawan TA2, Widiyanto G2, Yuanita A2, Mulyani NS3, Makhmudi A2.

Abstract

OBJECTIVES:
Recently, a scoring system has been developed to predict which patients with biliary atresia (BA) who underwent a Kasai procedure should be considered for liver transplant. Here, we applied the scoring system to predict the survival of BA patients following the Kasai procedure at Dr. Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia from January 2012 to January 2016.

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29937902 Portal hypertension

J Res Med Sci. 2018 May 30;23:40. doi: 10.4103/jrms.JRMS_1085_17. eCollection 2018.

Riahinezhad M1, Rezaei M1, Saneian H2,3,4, Famouri F2,3,4, Farghadani M1.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:
Doppler ultrasonography (Doppler US) plays an important role in evaluating patients with liver cirrhosis. This study aims to investigate the hemodynamic alterations of hepatic artery and portal vein among children with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension (esophageal varices).

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29948993 Cirrhosis
Indian J Gastroenterol. 2018 Jun 13. doi: 10.1007/s12664-018-0857-6. [Epub ahead of print]

Prevalence of celiac disease among pediatric patients with cryptogenic cirrhosis and effect of gluten-free-diet.Joshi A, Falodia S, Kumar N, Gupta P, Khatri PC.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:
Liver involvement in celiac disease (CD) is classified into autoimmune and cryptogenic. The association between CD and autoimmune liver diseases like autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, and primary sclerosing cholangitis is well-established; however, the data on patients with cryptogenic cirrhosis, particularly from India, are scanty. So we did this study to find the prevalence of CD in patients with cryptogenic cirrhosis.

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