Surgical Sciences Research Society, Zaria and Association of Surgeons of Nigeria
Abstract
Long term survival for decades after portoenterostomy (Kasai procedure)
for biliary atresia is rare and the association of portoenterostomy
with liver cirrhosis is well known. Not much attention was given in the
evaluation of the imaging features of cirrhosis caused by
portoenterostomy as received by other known usual causes of cirrhosis.
We presented a case of a Nigerian with confirmed biliary atresia at
birth, that suvived portoenterostomy performed at two months of age for
21years. The cirrhotic presentation at imaging was that of prominent
volume redistribution with less parenchymal changes in the liver. The
long term survival and the type of cirrhotic presentation on imaging in
this case is worthy of note for the record
