Biliary Atresia

Liver Transplant Improves Infants' Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Status

Published in Blood Weekly, June 29th, 2000

Degraded long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (LC-PUFA) status in infants with biliary atresia (BA) is improved to an extent by liver transplantation, according to researchers.

"Liver transplantation (LT) markedly increases survival of patients with BA but the extent to which this reverses poor LC-PUFA status is not known," explained A. Lapillonne and colleagues at Baylor University, Texas ("Effects of liver transplantation on long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid status in infants with biliary atresia," Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 2000;30(5):528-532).

Lapillonne et al. studied eight infants, who had been diagnosed...

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