congenital⚑ High burden in India
Biliary atresia
, also known as extrahepatic ductopenia and progressive obliterative cholangiopathy, is a childhood disease of the liver in which one or more bile are abnormally narrow, blocked, or absent. It can be or acquired. Biliary atresia is the most common reason for pediatric liver in the United States. It has an of one in 10,000–15,000 live births in the United States, and a of one in 16,700 in the British Isles. Globally, biliary atresia cases are most common in East Asia, with a frequency of one in 5,000.
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Symptoms — what it feels like
- ·, pale , dark urine
Treatment
- ·, liver
Complications
- ·, , liver failure
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