Prolonged neonatal jaundice

Prolonged neonatal jaundice

Prolonged neonatal jaundice is defined as a jaundice lasting more than 14 days of life in the full-term infants [1,2]. Etiologically it is helpful to distinguish jaundice related to unconjugated (indirect) or conjugated (direct) hyperbilirubinemia. A prolonged unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia may be related to breastfeeding or to some pathological conditions as hemolytic diseases (due to Rh or A...

Prolonged neonatal jaundice in cystic fibrosis.

an histologically normal liver at necropsy. The two survivors were jaundiced for 6 months and 5 weeks respectively, before making a clinical recovery, and in both liver biopsy at the height of the jaundice showed bile stasis. Meconium ileus was present in half of all recorded cases of cystic fibrosis with prolonged neonatal jaundice. Jaundice is probably due to extrahepatic biliary obstruction ...

Neonatal jaundice.

This article discusses the production, transport, and excretion of bilirubin in the newborn period. The causes, significance, and treatment of unconjugated and conjugated hyperbilirubinemia are different; and because this is so, it is important to review the main causes and management of unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia. Conjugated hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn period could be either due to ...

Neonatal Jaundice

Neonatal jaundice [2] is the yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes due to elevated bilirubin levels in the bloodstream of a newborn. Bilirubin is a byproduct of the breakdown of red blood cells. Jaundiced infants are unable to process bilirubin at a normal rate or they have an abnormally high amount of bilirubin in their bloodstream, resulting in a buildup of the yellow colored bilirubin. T...

[Neonatal jaundice].