BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Etiologic role, incidence, demographic, and response-to-treatment characteristics of urinary tract infection (UTI) among neonates, its relationship with significant neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, and abnormalities of the urinary system were studied in a prospective investigation in early (⩽10 days) idiopathic neonatal jaundice in which all other etiologic factors of neonata...

There are many disorders associated with direct hyperbilirubinemia in the neonatal period. These usually need urgent referral to identify treatable diseases. DubinJohnson Syndrome (DJS), which results from impaired hepatic excretory function, is an uncommon cause of neonatal jaundice and is only sporadically reported in neonates. We report here a neonate who presented with direct hyperbilirubin...

  Background :Severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. This study was conducted to investigate the causes of severe hyperbilirubinemia leading to Exchange Transfusion (ET) from March 2009 to March 2011 in Bahrami children hospital, Tehran, Iran in order to establish guidelines to prevent profound jaundice & ET.   Methods : 94 neonates underwent ...

The aims of this study were to detect the frequency at which the different types of neonatal jaundice occur in Makkah and to estimate the malondialdehyde (MDA) levels. This study included 239 neonates with neonatal jaundice, 20 anemic neonates and 21 healthy neonates. ABO incompatibility was observed in 31.6% of neonates with indirect hyperbilirubinemia, in 14.3% of those with early onset jaund...

background :severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. this study was conducted to investigate the causes of severe hyperbilirubinemia leading to exchange transfusion (et) from march 2009 to march 2011 in bahrami children hospital, tehran, iran in order to establish guidelines to prevent profound jaundice & et.   methods : 94 neonates underwent et...

Hyperbilirubinemia is frequently observed in Caucasian HIV patients treated with atazanavir. UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 polymorphism, UGT1A1*28, which is associated with atazanavir-induced hyperbilirubinemia, is less common in Asians than in Caucasians. However, little is known about the incidence of atazanavir-associated hyperbilirubinemia in Asian populations. Our objective was to invest...

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 ...

BACKGROUND Severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. This study was conducted to investigate the causes of severe hyperbilirubinemia leading to Exchange Transfusion (ET) from March 2009 to March 2011 in Bahrami children hospital, Tehran, Iran in order to establish guidelines to prevent profound jaundice & ET. METHODS 94 neonates underwent ET fo...

From 105 808 neonates born at ≥35 weeks’ gestation at 1 of 17 Kaiser Permanente Northern California hospitals between 2012 and 2014, Chang et al 9 identified a cohort of 7048 newborns treated with phototherapy. The objective of the study was to identify predictors of “rebound, ” defined as a return to treatment threshold levels within 72 hours of discontinuation of a neonate’s first round of ph...

Objective: To investigate the major causes and current management of hyperbilirubinemia in full-term newborns in a general hospital. Methods: The clinical and laboratory data of 1,455 full-term newborns with hyperbilirubinemia in the department of neonatology were collected for retrospective and descriptive analysis. Univariate logistic analysis was used to compare the risk factors for hyperbil...