Physiological Jaundice of the Newborn
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Jaundice in the newborn.
Hyperbilirubinemia is the commonest morbidity in the neonatal period and 5-10% of all newborns require intervention for pathological jaundice. Neonates on exclusive breast-feeding have a different pattern of physiological jaundice as compared to artificially fed babies. Guidelines from American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for management of jaundice in a normal term newborn have been included in...
متن کاملJaundice and factor VII deficiency in newborn
Resistance to thyroid hormone is an uncommon condition. We report the clinical and laboratory findings of a case with both resistance to thyroid hormone and, a reduced capacity to produce and respond to thyroid hormone. RTH is a disorder characterized by elevated circulating thyroid hormones, state of non-suppressed pituitary TSH secretion and refractoriness to hormone action in peripheral tiss...
متن کاملAcholuric jaundice in a newborn infant.
Mrs. C., the mother, of the affected infant, came under observation for the first time in 1940, with a history of chronic backache, puffiness of the eyes, and frequency of micturition. These symptoms were discovered to be due to pyelitis which was treated with sulphonamide, with marked improvement. At this time she was noticed to be slightly jaundiced and her spleen was enlarged to three finger...
متن کاملPrevention of neurodevelopmental sequelae of jaundice in the newborn.
Although its cause, jaundice in the newborn, is extremely common, the disabling neurological disorder kernicterus is very rare. Kernicterus may be prevented by selecting those infants who are at risk of extreme jaundice or who may be particularly vulnerable to bilirubin neurotoxicity. Because the tools for achieving that goal are inadequate, a secondary strategy is needed. This involves a plan ...
متن کاملObstructive jaundice and haemolytic disease of the newborn.
Although in most cases of haemolytic disease of the newborn practically all the bilirubin in the serum is of the indirect reacting type, a quarter of a century ago Still (1927) and Hawksley and Lightwood (1934) described cases in which the serum direct reacting bilirubin was raised and signs of obstructive jaundice appeared. This condition came to be known as the 'inspissated bile syndrome' (Hs...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1951
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4704.435