Children With Biliary Atresia Have Substantial Morbidity in Early Childhood and a High Risk of Liver Transplantation
The high mortality and the substantial need for liver transplantation within the first year of life underline the severity of biliary atresia. This highlights the urgent need for further research into pregnancy exposures that may contribute to this rare but severe congenital anomaly to develop primary prevention strategies.
Authors
- Maria A. Loane (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1206-3637)
- Joanne Emma Given (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4921-1944)
- Joan K. Morris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7164-612X)
- David Tucker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3077-5918)
- Clara Cavero‐Carbonell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4858-6456)
- Ester Garne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0430-2594)
- Sue E. Jordan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5691-2987)
- Elisa Ballardini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8813-1835)
- A Pierini
- Mika Gissler
- Anke Rissmann
- Joachim Tan
- Mads Damkjær
Institutions
- University of Ulster (GB)
- St George's, University of London (GB)
- University of Southern Denmark (DK)
- University of Ferrara (IT)
- Great Ormond Street Hospital (GB)
- Swansea University (GB)
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (FI)
- Public Health Wales (GB)
- Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana (ES)
- Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica (IT)
- Lillebaelt Hospital (DK)
- National Research Council (IT)
- University College London (GB)
- Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Birth Defects Research
- Published
- 2026-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bdr2.70024
- Primary Topic
- Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Commission