Diagnosis of biliary atresia can not be excluded by declining trend of serum direct bilirubin

• Hauptverfasser: Keita Terui (Verfasst von), Yasuyuki Higashimoto (Verfasst von), Eriko Saito (Verfasst von), Takeshi Saito (Verfasst von), Tetsuya Mitsuanga (Verfasst von), Mitsuyuki Nakata (Verfasst von), Jun Iwai (Verfasst von), Hideo Yoshida (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: MDPI AG, 2013-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the clinical courses of patients with biliary atresia (BA) during neonatal period. We examined 19 patients with BA, who underwent blood tests including direct bilirubin (D-Bil) within 20 days of age, in 3 tertiary hospitals in Japan. The first blood sample was...