Open AccessCytomegalovirus in biliary atresia: coincidental or causal?
Author(s) -
Devdeep Mukherjee,
Ritabrata Kundu,
Prabal Niyogi,
Joydeep Das
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
sri lanka journal of child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2386-110X
pISSN - 1391-5452
DOI - 10.4038/sljch.v45i4.8057
Subject(s) - medical journal , sri lanka , medicine , publishing , transparency (behavior) , scopus , library science , family medicine , political science , tanzania , medline , law , socioeconomics , sociology , computer science
Neonatal cholestasis (NC) has been documented in 19–33% of neonates with chronic liver disease attending tertiary care hospitals in India1-3. Of these, almost one third have been attributed to biliary atresia3. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is known to cause intrahepatic bile duct paucity and destruction and has been suggested to cause extra hepatic biliary atresia (EHBA) in a few case series4. We present a series of 4 cases admitted to our hospital over the last 18 months having EHBA with CMV infection.
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