This podcast is a discussion of the international approach to diagnosis and management of biliary atresia, amongst Dr. Todd Ponsky, Dr. Yamataka Atsuyuki, Dr. Greg Tiao, Dr. Mark Davenport, and Dr. Jorge Bezerra.
Dr. Greg Tiao is the Director of General and Thoracic Surgery, Frederick C. Ryckman Chair in Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation, and Associate Director of the Pediatric Surgery Fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Dr. Yamataka Atsuyuki is Professor and Head of Pediatric General and Urogenital Surgery at Juntendo University in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Mark Davenport is the Head of Department of Pediatric Surgery and Professor at King’s College Hospital, London, and immediate past President of BAPS. Dr. Jorge Bezerra is the Director of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, and Medical Director of the Pediatric Liver Care Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Time Stops:
00:01:41 Gastroenterology: Back to beginning for evaluation
00:04:10 Future Evaluation Options
00:05:48 Post-operative Steroids
00:11:15 Steroid Regimens
00:16:17 Potential side effects of steroids
00:18:07 Timing of steroid initiation
00:19:03 Post-Operative Antibiotics
00:20:14 Post-Operative Nutrition
00:21:08 Case 2: 100-day-old infant with a similar presentation
00:25:23 Case 3: Patient younger than two weeks with similar presentation
00:27:08 Post-Operative Complications
00:27:19 Cholangitis
00:30:17 Non-clearance of bilirubin
00:32:30 Role of cytomegalovirus (CMV)
00:37:24 Patients with initial clearance of jaundice who then require transplantation
Intro track is adapted from "I dunno" by grapes, featuring J Lang, Morusque.
Artist URL: ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
