Child health · UKMLA & AKT
Neonatal hepatitis and cholestasis
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test, covering how to recognise this condition. The full SA Note notes add investigations, management and complications, with practice questions on this topic.
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- Conjugated (direct) hyperbilirubinaemia in a neonate is always pathological. The most surgically urgent cause is biliary atresia - progressive fibro-inflammatory obliteration of the extrahepatic bile ducts leading to biliary cirrhosis and liver failure without treatment.
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