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Biliary Atresia

"Biliary Atresia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Progressive destruction or the absence of all or part of the extrahepatic BILE DUCTS, resulting in the complete obstruction of BILE flow. Usually, biliary atresia is found in infants and accounts for one third of the neonatal cholestatic JAUNDICE.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Biliary Atresia" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Biliary Atresia" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 40 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2019
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.