BOSTON—Pediatric guidelines recommend that children with gastrointestinal varices undergo endoscopic treatment, but according to new research, a sizeable minority of children with biliary atresia and portal hypertension who have GI bleeding do not undergo endoscopy.
Understanding of “the true natural history of portal hypertension in biliary atresia” is one of the goals of a rare disease research group from 16 different centers, said investigator Lee M. Bass, MD, the director