When.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: aap hyperbilirubinemia chart for children 10 and 18 old girls

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Neonatal jaundice - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_jaundice

    Concerns, in otherwise healthy babies, occur when levels are greater than 308 μmol/L (18 mg/dL), jaundice is noticed in the first day of life, there is a rapid rise in levels, jaundice lasts more than two weeks, or the baby appears unwell. [1]

  3. Crigler–Najjar syndrome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crigler–Najjar_syndrome

    Crigler–Najjar syndrome is a rare inherited disorder affecting the metabolism of bilirubin, a chemical formed from the breakdown of the heme in red blood cells. The disorder results in a form of nonhemolytic jaundice, which results in high levels of unconjugated bilirubin and often leads to brain damage in infants.

  4. AAP Red Book - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAP_Red_Book

    The AAP Red Book, or Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is a hardcover, softcover, and electronic reference to the "manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of some 200 childhood infectious diseases". The Red Book first appeared as an eight-page booklet in 1938. The most ...

  5. Hereditary hyperbilirubinemia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_hyperbilirubinemia

    Hereditary hyperbilirubinemia refers to a group of conditions where levels of bilirubin, a byproduct of red blood cell metabolism, are elevated in the blood due to a genetic cause. [1] Various mutations of enzymes in the liver cells, which breakdown bilirubin, cause varying elevated levels of bilirubin in the blood. [ 2 ]

  6. Lucey–Driscoll syndrome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucey–Driscoll_syndrome

    The common cause is congenital, but it can also be caused by maternal steroids passed on through breast milk to the newborn.It is different from breast feeding-associated jaundice (breast-fed infants have higher bilirubin levels than formula-fed ones).

  7. Kernicterus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernicterus

    Kernicterus is a bilirubin-induced brain dysfunction. [1] The term was coined in 1904 by Christian Georg Schmorl.Bilirubin is a naturally occurring substance in the body of humans and many other animals, but it is neurotoxic when its concentration in the blood is too high, a condition known as hyperbilirubinemia.

  8. Dubin–Johnson syndrome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubin–Johnson_syndrome

    Dubin–Johnson syndrome is a benign condition and no treatment is required. However, it is important to recognize the condition so as not to confuse it with other hepatobiliary disorders associated with conjugated hyperbilirubinemia that require treatment or have a different prognosis. [8]

  9. Liver function tests - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver_function_tests

    When the total serum bilirubin increases over 95th percentile for age during the first week of life for high risk babies, it is known as hyperbilirubinemia of the newborn (neonatal jaundice) and requires light therapy to reduce the amount of bilirubin in the blood. Pathological jaundice in newborns should be suspected when the serum bilirubin ...