Patient's question:
My baby just turned one year old. In the first week of his birth, he had very severe jaundice and was taken to the hospital for blue light treatment. Recently, when I took him for a physical examination, it was found that he has biliary atresia. Could you please tell me if children with biliary atresia can be saved?Doctor's answer:
Children with biliary atresia can be treated using two methods: conservative treatment and surgical treatment. Only with treatment can the child be saved; without treatment, the child has no chance of survival. The surgery depends on the scope and type of biliary atresia. The most thorough treatment is liver transplantation, which offers the hope of replacing the old liver with a new one and re-establishing an intrahepatic and extrahepatic biliary system, giving the child the chance to survive.