Higher peak bile acid levels and maternal BMI are independent risk factors associated with worsening pruritus in women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy.

Is Neonatal Cholestasis a Marker of Future Liver Damage? —This study examined the natural history of infants born with alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency and liver disease, with a focus on ...

Sometimes, a friend's Facebook comment can save a life. After Christina DePino complained in a Facebook post about itching during her pregnancy, friends cautioned that she may have cholestasis ...

Sepsis-associated Cholestasis It has been known for many years that patients with a wide variety of nonhepatic infections can develop cholestasis (see [15, 76] for excellent reviews). In 1901, in ...

Cholestasis is a buildup of bile, something our bodies make to help digest food, in the blood. Many different conditions can lead to cholestasis including pregnancy.

Cholestasis refers to the disruption in the flow of bile, a digestive fluid in the liver, which either slows down or stops. Pregnancy is one of the causes of Cholestasis; others being obstetric ...

In cholestasis, the flow of bile juice from the liver to the small intestine reduces or stops. As a result, bile builds up in the liver, and bile acids eventually enter the bloodstream.

Intrahepatic cholestasis in rats was induced by α-naphthylisothiocyanate (ANIT) on days 1 and 8. The rats received YZH, ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA), or vehicle for 9 d and were killed on either ...

Systemic symptoms included hepatobiliary symptoms in 14 patients (61%); jaundice, hyperbilirubinemia, cholestasis, hepatosplenomegaly, and liver failure (requiring transplant) were reported ...

Cholestasis research is still an emerging field, but Dr. Mays has been examining it for decades after his hospital had three stillbirths over the course of two years in the early 2000s.