The Viral Association of Neonatal Cholestasis in Sweden: A Possible Link Between Cytomegalovirus Infection and Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia

Abstract

Cytomegalovirus infection may play a role, not only in intrahepatic neonatal cholestasis, as was suggested earlier, but also in extrahepatic biliary atresia. The pathogenetic mechanism for this link remains to be established.