Preoperative alkaline phosphatase is a potential predictor of short-term outcome of surgery in infants with biliary atresia.

Aim Of The Study: Biliary atresia (BA) is a fibro-inflammatory cholangiopathy of intra- and extrahepatic biliary radicles. The standard-of-care treatment is surgical restoration of bile flow by Kasai hepatoportoenterostomy (HPE). We aimed to identify the predictors of short-term outcome of the Kasai operation three months postoperatively.