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Descriptor English: Biliary Atresia
Descriptor Spanish: Atresia Biliar
Descriptor atresia biliar
Entry term(s) atresia biliar extrahepática
atresia biliar intrahepática
Scope note: Destrucción progresiva o ausencia de parte o todos los CONDUCTOS BILIARES extrahepáticos, lo que da lugar a obstrucción completa del flujo de la BILIS. Generalmente la atresia biliar se encuentra en los lactantes y es la causa de la tercera parte de las ICTERICIAS colestásicas neonatales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Atresia Biliar
Descriptor French: Atrésie des voies biliaires
Entry term(s): Atresia, Biliary
Atresia, Extrahepatic Biliary
Atresia, Intrahepatic Biliary
Biliary Atresia, Extrahepatic
Biliary Atresia, Intrahepatic
Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia
Familial Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia
Idiopathic Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia
Intrahepatic Biliary Atresia
Tree number(s): C06.130.120.123
C06.198.125
C16.131.314.125
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001656
Scope note: 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.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Bile Ducts/abnormalities (1966-1986)
Public MeSH Note: 1987
History Note: 1987
Related: Portoenterostomy, Hepatic MeSH
DeCS ID: 19088
Unique ID: D001656
NLM Classification: WI 753
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Date Established: 1987/01/01
Date of Entry: 1986/04/03
Revision Date: 2018/05/21
Biliary Atresia - Preferred
Concept UI M0002487
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Biliary Atresia
Entry term(s) Atresia, Biliary
Intrahepatic Biliary Atresia - Narrower
Concept UI M000641718
Preferred term Intrahepatic Biliary Atresia
Entry term(s) Atresia, Intrahepatic Biliary
Biliary Atresia, Intrahepatic
Biliary Atresia, Extrahepatic - Narrower
Concept UI M000641717
Preferred term Biliary Atresia, Extrahepatic
Entry term(s) Atresia, Extrahepatic Biliary
Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia
Idiopathic Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia - Narrower
Concept UI M0574701
Preferred term Idiopathic Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia
Familial Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia - Narrower
Concept UI M0574702
Preferred term Familial Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia



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