OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE: A CLINICAL STUDY

A Genetic Study of Neonatal Obstructive Jaundice.

Clarification of the problem of jaundice in the neonatal period began with the discovery of foetomaternal rhesus incompatibility as the usual cause of haemolytic disease of the newborn. After this, the group of infants in whom the jaundice is of obstructive type, with pale stools and bile in the urine, received more attention, and it was soon realized that not all such infants suffered from atr...

Renal failure in obstructive jaundice--clinical aspects.

The patient with obstructive jaundice has an increased risk ofdeveloping renal failure. The commonest clinical situations in which this is seen is after surgical operation, as a result of percutaneous cholangiography or in association with severe ascending cholangitis. The risk of acute renal failure is decreased by ensuring adequate hydration and maintaining a high urine flow, if necessary usi...

Obstructive Jaundice

Obstructive Jaundice

Introduction Neonatal cholestasis is defined as prolonged elevation of serum levels of conjugated bilirubin beyond the first 14 days of life. Neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia is usually physiologic, unconjugated, and self-limited. Only 2–15% of neonates remain jaundiced past 2 weeks of life, and just 0.2–0.4% have cholestatic jaundice from either intrahepatic cholestasis or structural abnormalities...

A Case of Obstructive Jaundice

n 84-year-old woman presented with a 2-day history f jaundice, fever and abdominal pain. Physical examiation showed scleral icterus and right upper quadrant enderness without inspiratory arrest at palpation (absent urphy’s sign). Laboratory workup revealed leukocytosis 12.4 × 103 L), elevated C-reactive protein (8.3 mg/dL) nd cholestasis (bilirubin 5.4 mg/dL, alkaline phosphatase 893 U/L, gamma...