Alagille syndrome with a spontaneous appearance of the interlobular bile ducts |
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Authors: | TAKUJI FUJISAWA MASAYOSHI KAGE KOSUKE USHIJIMA AKIHIKO KIMURA EIICHIRO ONO HIROHISA KATO |
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Affiliation: | 1. The First Department of Pathology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan;2. Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan |
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Abstract: | We report a rare case of a 10 year old girl diagnosed as having Alagille syndrome on the basis of a characteristic face, posterior embryotoxon, cholestasis, peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis and the absence of interlobular bile ducts in a liver biopsy at 1.5 years of age. Since 1.5 years old, she had been in good health without medication and the serum biochemical liver function tests indicated no progression of cholestasis. A second liver biopsy at 9.5 years of age showed normal interlobular bile ducts confirmed by anti-keratin staining at each of the five examined portal areas. Alagille syndrome is usually associated with the progressive disappearance of interlobular bile ducts. The findings of interlobular bile ducts in the second liver biopsy were therefore rare and unique to this case. |
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Keywords: | Alagille syndrome bile duct histology liver biopsy regeneration |
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