Symptoms of biliary atresia in premature infants?

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The cause of neonatal biliary atresia is the gradual fibrosis of the common hepatic duct, which leads to the obstruction of the biliary system. Most of the biliary atresia has clinical manifestations after a few weeks of life. It also occurs after extrahepatic biliary tract infection and fibrosis. It is rarely found after birth or in the fetus? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Symptoms of biliary atresia in premature infants?

If the inflammation involves the extrahepatic bile duct and becomes narrow but not completely blocked, that is the so-called biliary dysplasia, sometimes this disease may gradually improve, lumen enlargement, biliary tract patency. Sometimes inflammation continues to develop, leading to complete biliary obstruction and biliary atresia;

Some children's feces become white clay color after birth, but many children have normal feces and feces after birth. With the deepening of systemic jaundice, the color of feces gradually becomes pale, and finally becomes white clay color. About 15% of the children had white stool only one month after birth. If the course of disease is long, the feces can change from white to light yellow. With the deepening of intoxication symptoms, the urine color of the children also deepened, even dark brown.

Parents may find that the newborn's eyes are white and yellow, and the skin is yellowish. This phenomenon will become more and more serious. With the rapid progress of the disease, the child's skin may be yellowish green or grayish green, with skin itching, emotional irritability and other symptoms.

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Only 1% of the patients survived to 4 years old. However, we have to make great determination to accept the operation, which has a far-reaching impact on infants and families, such as delayed early development, repeated hospitalization in the first year, and reoperation in the future.