Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography as a diagnostic key tool for biliary atresia: feasibility, safety and accuracy in neonates with cholestatic liver disease
Steffen Hartleif, Michael Esser, Jörg Fuchs, Martin Götz, Florian Graepler, Johannes Hilberath, Toni Illhardt, Hans-Joachim Kirschner, Nisar P Malek, Andreas Manger, Jürgen Schäfer, Ulrike Schempf, Stephan Singer, Christoph Slavetinsky, Dietmar Stüker, Ilias Tsiflikas, Dörte Wichmann, Ekkehard Sturm · 2025
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Description
Hartleif and co-authors wrote a study from 2025 on using a scope test to rule out a blocked bile duct disease in jaundiced newborns. The disease scars and closes the bile ducts, and early surgery gives the child's own liver its best chance. No blood or scan test can rule it out for sure, so open surgery has been the default proof. The team tested whether a camera passed into the bile duct could do the job.
Sixty infants at one German hospital were scheduled for the scope test at a median age of fifty days. The test worked in all but two. In twenty-three babies the ducts could not be shown, which pointed to the disease. In thirty-five the ducts looked normal and the disease was ruled out. The test caught every true case with no major side effects.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Steffen Hartleif, Michael Esser, Jörg Fuchs, Martin Götz, Florian Graepler, Johannes Hilberath, Toni Illhardt, Hans-Joachim Kirschner, Nisar P Malek, Andreas Manger, Jürgen Schäfer, Ulrike Schempf, Stephan Singer, Christoph Slavetinsky, Dietmar Stüker, Ilias Tsiflikas, Dörte Wichmann, Ekkehard Sturm |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |