pregnancies. Pregnancy encompasses a wide variety of physiological changes with increased, decreased or unchanged parameters. Liver function abnormality can represent a physiological change, but elevations of transaminase, bilirubin, and prothrombin time almost always indicate a pathologic state. The major physiologic changes in pregnancy, that peak in second trimester and plateau at delivery, ...

Background: Jaundice is the most common cause of infant’s hospitalization. Infancy and especially the first few days after birth has important role on human mental and psychophysical Health in the future. Aim: To investigate the effects of massage on infants’ physiological jaundice. Methods: This single-blind clinical trial was performed at Tabriz Alzahra hospital. In this study, 47 healthy ful...

Thirty four term babies with physiological jaundice were subjected to continuous phototherapy and to two regimens of intermittent phototherapy. The difference in serum bilirubin kinetics between the three groups of treated babies was insignificant; a schedule of one in four hours of irradiation achieved the same treatment effect as continuous phototherapy.

The jaundice that develops after obstruction of the common duct in the absence of complications, expresses the physiological wastage of corpuscles occurring from day to day; and the intensity of the bilirubinemia varies as does the total of functioning hemoglobin-containing tissue from which this wastage takes place. There is to be observed a constantly readjusted direct relationship between he...

AIMS (1) A prospective analysis of clinically obvious jaundice (bilirubin >120 micromol/l) in South Wales to determine accuracy of diagnosis, referral pattern, treatment, and outcome. (2) To compare British gastroenterologists' and local general practitioners' perceptions of common causes of jaundice with our study findings. METHODS Over a seven month period all patients with bilirubin >120 m...

Background: Biliary Atresia (BA) also known as "progressive obliterative cholangiopathy" is one of the most common conditions requiring pediatric liver transplant and surgically treatable cause neonatal cholestasis. Associated malformations are present in 25% cases it East Asia, with incidence reported high 5,000. BA presents cholestatic Jaundice, initially indistinguishable from physiological ...

Jaundice is common in healthy newborn infants. It is the result of normal adaptive physiological processes and generally peaks in severity between 3 and 5 days after birth and then resolves over the next 7 to 10 days. When bilirubin rises to toxic levels, bilirubin encephalopathy and subsequent kernicterus can occur. Phototherapy is a well-established and safe treatment of neonatal jaundice. A ...

nt matter & 2005 2005.12.004 thor. Tel.: +44 174 . [email protected] Summary Prolonged jaundice in premature infants (born at o37 weeks gestation) is a frequent clinical problem. The delay in physiological adaptation following premature birth, together with the promotion of breast milk feeds among neonatal units, increases the age at which nonpathological jaundice subsides compared with infants ...

Blood transfusion is a life-saving procedure in which whole blood or parts of are introduced into patient's bloodstream intravenously. The need maybe due to physiological pathological causes. objective this study was document the pattern and indications for at Special Care Baby Unit Benue State University Teaching Hospital (BSUTH), Makurdi. This retrospective review 126 neonates who received ca...