Caring for a newborn comes with both joys and challenges. From recognizing danger signs to understanding the impact of ...

What is Cushing's syndrome? Cushing's syndrome is a hormonal disorder. It’s caused when you have high levels of the hormone cortisol over a long time. Cushing's syndrome is fairly rare. It most often ...

In 2017, we announced data from a Phase 2 study of odevixibat in patients aged one to 17 with pediatric cholestatic liver disease, including PFIC, Alagille syndrome, biliary atresia and ...

cystic-duct syndrome, biliary dyskinesia and various neuroses have been made. It seems highly probable, in the light of present knowledge, that relapsing pancreatitis has been the cause of the ...

Cirrhosis may also be caused by conditions other than hepatitis, including hemochromatosis (a hereditary iron overload disease); alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, a hereditary absence of an enzyme; and ...

Biliary colic (also known as a "gallbladder attack") is abdominal pain that develops due to a blockage in the bile ducts. Bile ducts carry bile (digestive fluid) from your liver to your ...

biliary atresia (BA), biliary tract tumors, primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and other diseases are commonly encountered in clinical practice within the digestive system. To gain a better ...

The craniofacial features associated with sleep-related breathing disorders (SRBD) – craniosynostosis, retrognathia and micrognathia, midface and maxillary hypoplasia – have high heritability and, in ...

4,5 Our own observations suggest that biliary atresia associated with this trisomy syndrome may be the end result of a hepatitis involving not only the parenchyma but the biliary epithelium as ...