Some patients with early-onset and more severe liver disease can benefit from liver transplantation. Careful and complete assessment should be made of infants with a cholestatic syndrome, to avoid misdiagnosis and unnecessary Kasai procedures. Our observation of vascular compromise in various organ systems suggests that notch signaling pathway defects affect angiogenesis in Alagille syndrome.
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