Open AccessPre-operative hepatic artery resistive index is a non-invasive predictive indicator of prognosis in biliary atresia
Author(s) -
Deepak Mittal,
Veereshwar Bhatnagar,
Sandeep Agarwala,
M Srinivas,
Manisha Jana,
Arun Kumar Gupta,
Nibhriti Das,
Manoj Kumar Singh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of indian association of pediatric surgeons
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1998-3891
pISSN - 0971-9261
DOI - 10.4103/jiaps.jiaps_103_17
Subject(s) - medicine , biliary atresia , gastroenterology , resistive index , liver biopsy , artery , fibrosis , liver function , common bile duct , biopsy , blood flow , liver transplantation , transplantation
The aim of this study is to evaluate hepatic artery resistive index (HARI) as a noninvasive prognostic predictor by correlating it with peripheral blood nitric oxide (NO) levels, portal pressure (PP) and histopathological changes in the liver in patients of biliary atresia (BA).