INFANTILE CHOLESTASIS IN THE CENTRAL-EASTERN PROVINCE SAUDI-ARABIA

Authors
ABDULLAH AMA SALEH MA ALMADAN M ELMOUZAN M OLASOPE B
Citation
Ama. Abdullah et al., INFANTILE CHOLESTASIS IN THE CENTRAL-EASTERN PROVINCE SAUDI-ARABIA, Journal of tropical pediatrics, 43(3), 1997, pp. 138-142
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine",Pediatrics
Journal title
Journal of tropical pediatrics → ACNP
ISSN journal
01426338
Volume
43
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
138 - 142
Database
ISI
SICI code
0142-6338(1997)43:3<138:ICITCP>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
In the King Khalid University Hospital (Central Province) and King Fah ad Hospital of the University (Eastern Province) Saudi Arabia, we iden tified 64 infants with cholestasis. The causes of cholestasis were idi opathic neonatal hepatitis in 29; extrahepatic biliary atresia in 17; neonatal hepatitis secondary to Rubella and Cytomegalovirus in six and four infants, respectively: paucity of intrahepatic bile ducts in six and galactosaemia in two. The diagnosis was confirmed by liver biopsy and/or operative cholangiography, in all infants.