TY - T1 - Biliary atresia : growth, bone health and neurocognitive and motor outcome in childhood and adolescence SN - / UR - URN:ISBN:978-951-51-7677-6; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/335661 T3 - A1 - Ruuska, Satu A2 - PB - Helsingin yliopisto Y1 - 2021 LA - en AB - Background: Biliary atresia (BA) is a rare cholangiopathy of infancy. Without treatment, inflammation and obstruction of the biliary tracts leads to liver cirrhosis and death within the first 2 years of life. BA is treated with portoenterostomy (PE), in which an exit for bile from the liver is created by attaching a jejunal loop to the porta hepatis. If PE fails, the next treatment option is liver transplantation (LT). Since the development of LT programs in the late 1980s, the long-term outcome... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - lääketiede N1 - PP - ER -