Journal ArticleAnn Diagn Pathol · December 2024
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease with either acute or chronic presentation. Previous scoring systems have primarily focused on chronic hepatitis, but none have been validated in an acute setting of pediatric patients. ...
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Journal ArticleAliment Pharmacol Ther · May 2024
BACKGROUND: Data on oral vancomycin for primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)-associated inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are limited. AIMS: Using data from the Paediatric PSC Consortium, to examine the effect of vancomycin on IBD activity. METHODS: In this ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Transplant · February 2023
BACKGROUND: Caregivers play an important role in maintaining a functioning graft after pediatric liver transplantation. Therefore, the psychosocial factors of both patients and caregivers can have a critical impact on transplant outcomes. Appropriate asses ...
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Journal ArticleHepatology · March 2021
Background and AimsDisease progression in children with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is variable. Prognostic and risk‐stratification tools exist for adult‐onset PSC, but not for c ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition · January 2020
ABSTRACTBackground:Natural history models for primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) are derived from adult patient data, but have never been validated in children. It is unclear how accurat ...
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Journal ArticleHepatology Communications · November 2018
Adverse clinical events in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) happen too slowly to capture during clinical trials. Surrogate endpoints are needed, but no such validated endpoints exist for children with PSC. We evaluated the association between g ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition · October 2017
ABSTRACTObjectives:In adults, primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), a cholestatic liver disease characterized by inflammation/fibrosis of intra/extrahepatic bile ducts, associates with a m ...
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Journal ArticleHepatology · August 2017
There are limited data on the natural history of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) in children. We aimed to describe the disease characteristics and long‐term outcomes of pediatric PSC. We retrospectively collected all pediatric PSC cases from 3 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Hepatol · August 2016
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Pediatric liver cancer is a rare but serious disease whose incidence is rising, and for which the therapeutic options are limited. Development of more targeted, less toxic therapies is hindered by the lack of an experimental animal model ...
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