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Biliary atresia: A raBiliary atresia: A rare condition in newbornre condition in newborn 1 Citation Biliary atresia, a rare condition found in newborn infants, is often mistaken with jaundice. This is a condition which is neither hereditary nor contagious nor preventable. The only cure is surgery or liver transplantation. More on Biliary atresia: A rare condition in newborn, technorati.com
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My daughter is healthy; some kids aren?t?UPDATED 1 Citation Hospital interpretation for two Japanese families. At St. Vincent?s on 86th, both kids have pneumonia and asthma. The four-year-old boy gets to leave with one inhaled drug. The girl is worse and stays in for several more days. She leaves with two inhaled drugs and an oral steroid. Again and again and for several days I go over the doctors? instructions about which drug is which, what they do. This family will be okay: the asthma is going to be a pain, but there is the hope that it won?t affect, technorati.com
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Sick baby update for April 11, 2009 1 Citation Here is the previous post on this child, who is now back in the hospital until the 17th. The reason for the stay is cholangitis , an inflammation of the bile duct, and the baby now has a PICC line in for treatment with antibiotics. The Kasai procedure has been a moderate, but not a complete, success, and the doctors now say that the goal is to have the baby grow as much as possible so that he can have access to a bigger donor pool when the time comes to have a transplant, which is now ine, technorati.com
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Carnitine Supplementation Could Prevent, Slow or Reverse Liver Cancer 1 Citation Researchers have investigated for the first time the role of carnitine, a naturally occurring compound that is synthesized mainly in the liver, during the development of liver cancer. The researchers report that carnitine deficiency is a risk factor and should be viewed as a mechanism in hepatic carcinogenesis, and that long-term L-carnitine supplementation prevents the development of liver cancer. Carnitine supplementation alone or in combination with other natural chemopreventive compounds, technorati.com
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Sick baby update for April 24, 2009 1 Citation In my last post on this topic , I said, To me the child?s life force seemed strong, almost as if the whole liver deal is just an annoyance, an inconvenience to him. Maybe I was a wishful thinker. Maybe I was right. I was back in the hospital with the family yesterday. The doctors now believe that, unrelated to his biliary atresia, the baby has a rare inherited metabolic disorder. They said that there is only a 50% chance of ever learning what disease it is. The disease could be fatal in, technorati.com
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Sick baby update for June 11, 2009 1 Citation In my last post about the sick baby with biliary atresia, I felt that things were getting better. And the good news is that, since then, things for our little friend have only continued to improve. I last saw (and interpreted in the hospital for) the family on May 15, at which time the news from the doctors was more or less positive. There was an extensive discussion of the genetic disorder that the child may have, as well as its nature and cause (there are no definite answers yet). But his, technorati.com
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