Retrospective analysis of the standardized BARD criteria for acute cholangitis in biliary atresia patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In 2022, the Biliary Atresia and Related Diseases (BARD) community reached a consensus for the definition of suspected and confirmed cholangitis for biliary atresia (BA) patients after hepatoportoenterostomy (HPE). This study assessed the new standardized BARD definition in a retrospective, multicenter cohort study.

Methods

We included BA cases managed between 2010 and 2020 at the Hannover Medical School and Geneva University Hospitals' Swiss Pediatric Liver Center. The standardized BARD cholangitis definition assesses four clinical items and four imaging/laboratory items to define cholangitis. The definition was retrospectively applied to all BA cases having presented, according to their physician, cholangitis within the first year after the HPE. The diagnosis de

SUBMITTER: Madadi-Sanjani O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11322016 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature