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Top: Health: Child_Health: Conditions_and_Diseases: Digestive_Disorders
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Information, support and advice concerning disorders of the digestive tract in children, ranging in age from newborn to pre-teen.
| Please only submit sites in the English language that treat Biliary Atresia. |
Biliary atresia occurs when biliary ducts are obstructed due to progressive sclerosis of the common bile duct. In most cases, biliary atresia develops a few weeks after birth, probably after inflammation and scarring of the extrahepatic (and sometimes intrahepatic) bile ducts. It is rarely found in stillborns or in newborns at birth. The cause of the inflammatory response is uncertain.
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Affects mainly premature babies and seriously ill neonates. It is the most common surgical emergency in newborns. NEC accounts for 15% of deaths in premature babies weighing less than 1500 grams. Overall death from those babies with NEC is 25%.
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