Prediction of diseases would help physicians to make informal decision regarding the type of treatment. Jaundice is the most common condition that requires medical attention in newborn babies. Although most newborns develop some degree of jaundice, a high level bilirubin puts a newborn at risk of bilirubin encephalopathy and kernicterus, which are rare but still occur in Egypt. This paper prese...

Intuitively, dynamic visual stimuli, such as moving objects or flashing lights, attract attention. Visual search tasks have revealed that dynamic targets among static distractors can indeed efficiently guide attention. The present study shows that the reverse case, a static target among dynamic distractors, allows for relatively efficient selection in certain but not all cases. A static target ...

B ilirubin can cross the blood-brain barrier, especially when plasma concentrations are high and in neonates. Bilirubin is toxic and can lead to irreversible brain damage, signs of neurologic disease, and coma, which is called “kernicterus.” The most important cause of clinical icterus in equine neonates is neonatal isoerythrolysis (NI), an alloimmune disease characterized by immune-mediated he...

PURPOSE We sought to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of total serum bilirubin concentration (TSB) and free (unbound) bilirubin concentration (Bf) as predictors of risk for bilirubin toxicity and kernicterus and to examine consistency between these findings and proposed mechanisms of bilirubin transport and brain uptake. METHODS A review of literature was undertaken to define basic pr...