title: Various types of cholestatic jaundice in infants--causes and diagnostic problems.
abstract: The purpose of this review was to evaluate possible differentiation between various causes of different types of cholestatic jaundice in children. Analyses were performed in 33 infants from 3 weeks to 3.5 years old with symptoms of cholestatic jaundice. The most frequent causes of cholestasis were congenital atresia of extrahepatic bile ducts (30%) and the CMV infection (20%). On the basis of the performed examinations it should be concluded that in order to differentiate between the causes of cholestatic jaundice it is necessary to do a series of tests as there is no specific diagnostic method which would be effective.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Gastroenterology and Paediatric Oncology, Institute of Paediatrics, Medical University, ul. Nowe Ogrody 1-6, 80-803 Gdańsk, Poland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Liberek
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Góra-Gebka
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bako
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rytlewska
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kozielska
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Korzon
mesh_terms: D017734:Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic; D001656:Biliary Atresia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies