bile-duct atresia

Bile-duct atresia is a condition that is always accompanied by severe jaundice and that limits the person’s capacity to digest fatty foods. Survival for a few years is possible, and in a small but increasing number of cases, surgery is effective.

…deficiency of bile ducts called biliary atresia. Several centres have obtained an 80 to 90 percent one-year survival in children after liver grafting, although up to 25 percent of these patients may require retransplantation because of failure of the first graft.