Babies who had standard Kasai surgery when they were more than 60 days old or had spleen malformations were more likely to have poor outcomes from biliary atresia, a study found. These factors were better than blood markers of liver damage measured before surgery at predicting long-term liver survival. “Age at surgery and BASM [biliary atresia […] The post Age at Kasai, spleen issues key to biliary atresia outcomes appeared first on Liver Disease News.
