Rashid Mirza, Zaigham Abbas, Nasir Hassan Luck, Smzahid Azam, Sina Aziz, Syed Mujahid Hassan, Ghous Bakhsh Soomro.
Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak Jan ;16(10):673-5.

Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) is an important cause of cholestatic liver disease and biliary cirrhosis in pediatric population. Three cases of PFIC are described that were diagnosed on the basis of family history, pruritis, cirrhosis and / or paucity of interlobular bile ducts on liver biopsy and presence of extrahepatic biliary tree on imaging. These patients were initially labeled as suffering from extra-hepatic biliary atresia and neonatal hepatitis. PFIC-1 and 2 could not be differentiated on histological grounds, since these patients presented late and process of fibrosis was advanced.

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