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

• Egile Nagusiak: Keita Terui (Egilea), Yasuyuki Higashimoto (Egilea), Eriko Saito (Egilea), Takeshi Saito (Egilea), Tetsuya Mitsuanga (Egilea), Mitsuyuki Nakata (Egilea), Jun Iwai (Egilea), Hideo Yoshida (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: 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...