Hepatoportoenterostomy, or Kasai portoenterostomy, is a surgical treatment performed on infants with type IVb choledochal cyst or biliary atresia to allow bile drainage. In these infants the bile cannot drain normally from the small bile ducts within the liver into the larger bile ducts connecting to the gallbladder and small intestine.
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A hepatoportoenterostomy or Kasai portoenterostomy is a surgical treatment performed on infants with Type IVb choledochal cyst and biliary atresia to allow for bile drainage.
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This procedure was developed in 1951 by Japanese biliary and hepatic pediatric surgeon Morio Kasai
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Who developed the Kasai procedure, and when?
Morio Kasai, in 1951.
Hepatoportoenterostomy, also called the Kasai portoenterostomy, was developed in 1951 by the Japanese pediatric biliary and hepatic surgeon Morio Kasai. It is performed on infants with biliary atresia or a type IVb choledochal cyst to allow bile to drain.
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