Alagille syndrome

A rare syndrome variably characterized by chronic cholestasis due to paucity of intrahepatic bile ducts, peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis, vertebrae segmentation anomalies, characteristic facies, posterior embryotoxon/anterior segment abnormalities, pigmentary retinopathy, and dysplastic kidneys.

Biliary cirrhosis

Progressive destruction of the small-to-medium bile ducts of the intrahepatic biliary tree, which leads to progressive cholestasis and often end-stage liver disease.


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PMID (PMCID)
23789457
FEMALE Adult
[Congenital bile duct hypoplasia (Alagille-Watson syndrome)--a rare cause of biliary cirrhosis in adults].
Burnevich EZ, Lopatina IA, Arion EA, Odintsov AV.
Klin Med (Mosk). 2013;91(3):68-71.
[Congenital bile duct hypoplasia (Alagille-Watson syndrome)--a rare cause of biliary cirrhosis in adults].