Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography Evaluation of Suspected and Known Biliary Atresia

Completed

Conditions studied: Biliary Atresia

In brief

The investigators plan to investigate the use of US shear wave elastography (SWE), a newly available imaging technology, in children with suspected/known BA.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02652533

Run by

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

People needed

41

Starts

2016-09-01

Expected to finish

2019-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-09-23

Who can join

Age: any, up to 0. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• neonatal cholestasis with concern for BA vs. other liver disease direct bilirubin >20% of total or ≥2 mg/dL age <3 months

You may not qualify if…

• inability to obtain parent/guardian consent.
• inability to return for follow up visits as required by the study (these patients will be included in aim 1, but will be unable to participate in aim 2).
• no other exclusion criteria.

Where it is running

• Lucile Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford University — Stanford, California, United States
• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• Nationwide Children's — Columbus, Ohio, United States

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