CLINICAL CASE: CONGENITAL BILIARY ATRESIA OF CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ETIOLOGY

Biliary atresia is a rare disease detected in the neonatal period, considered both extrahepatic and intrahepatic bile ducts, leads to secondary biliary cirrhosis, liver failure and, ultimately, death of the child during the first two years of life. The causes of biliary atresia remain unclear. Most of the main etiologic methods for ensuring the development of biliary atresia currently consider CMV infection. The aim of this study is to present a clinical case of congenital biliary atresia in a newborn with a generalized form of congenital CMV infection. A prospective and retrospective analysis of the medical record of a newborn with congenital biliary atresia was performed, who was examined and visited the departments of the neonatal and premature infants department, was carried out. A comprehensive study was conducted in the department. A dangerous case of a newborn with the implementation of intrauterine infection, congenital cytomegalovirus infection, with atresia of the extrahepatic bile ducts is described. In our clinical case, a congenital malformation, biliary atresia, was detected, which proves an earlier intrauterine infection. The boy had light-colored stool, closer to acholic. In the first days of life, yellowness of the skin and sclera of the eyes is observed. With the beginning of phototherapy, the stool did not become colored. At the level of the central district hospital, any jaundice (congenital developmental pathology, atresia of the common bile duct) were detected during laboratory and instrumental examination. At the level of the perinatal center, the diagnosis was confirmed, and this was the decisive cause of this malformation with the development of pneumonia of cytomegalovirus etiology. The child was transferred to the pediatric surgical department at the age of 1 month for planned surgical treatment. The presented clinical case of biliary atresia in a newborn child allows pediatricians, neonatologists, and resuscitators to focus their attention on the clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of this disease.

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