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    Bilirubin (redirect from Hyperbilirubinemia)
    various pathological situations. Hyperbilirubinemia is a higher-than-normal level of bilirubin in the blood. Hyperbilirubinemia may refer to increased levels...
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  • Hyperbilirubinemia is a clinical condition describing an elevation of blood bilirubin level due to the inability to properly metabolise or excrete bilirubin...
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    affected level generally must be over 255 μmol/L (15 mg/dL). Prolonged hyperbilirubinemia (severe jaundice) can result in chronic bilirubin encephalopathy (kernicterus)...
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    onset of neonatal jaundice. The syndrome cannot cause severe indirect hyperbilirubinemia in neonates by itself, but it may have a summative effect on rising...
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  • accumulated bilirubin. Complications related to hemolytic jaundice include hyperbilirubinemia and chronic bilirubin encephalopathy, which may be deadly without...
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    calcification. While this may occur in children with hyperbilirubinemia, tooth discoloration due to hyperbilirubinemia is not observed in individuals with adult-onset...
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    Hereditary hyperbilirubinemia refers to the condition where levels of bilirubin are elevated, for reasons that can be attributed to a metabolic disorder...
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    concentration in the blood is too high, a condition known as hyperbilirubinemia. Hyperbilirubinemia may cause bilirubin to accumulate in the grey matter of...
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    cause of Gilbert's syndrome, which is characterized by unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia. It is also associated with Crigler–Najjar syndrome, a more serious...
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    mucosa. Other rare symptoms include fever and fatigue. The conjugated hyperbilirubinemia is a result of defective endogenous and exogenous transfer of anionic...
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    resuscitation equipment. In 1968, Dr. Jerold Lucey demonstrated that hyperbilirubinemia of prematurity (a form of neonatal jaundice) could be successfully...
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    known as Rotor type hyperbilirubinemia) is a rare cause of mixed direct (conjugated) and indirect (unconjugated) hyperbilirubinemia, relatively benign...
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    disorders classified as a transient familial neonatal unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia. The common cause is congenital, but it can also be caused by maternal...
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    researched. Clinical studies have outlined its use in the treatment of hyperbilirubinemia infants and also the prevention of neonatal jaundice. It has also...
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    urobilinogen levels may result from congenital enzymatic jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia syndromes) or from treatment with drugs that acidify urine, such as...
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    by about 70%; the resulting reduced enzyme activity leads to the hyperbilirubinemia characteristic of GS. The *28 polymorphism occurs with a frequency...
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  • Hyperandrogenism Hyperbilirubinemia transient familial neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia type 1 Hyperbilirubinemia type 2 Hyperbilirubinemia Hypercalcemia, familial...
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    [citation needed] High at birth or rapidly rising bilirubin Prolonged hyperbilirubinemia Bilirubin Induced Neurological Dysfunction Cerebral Palsy Kernicterus...
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    A bili light is a light therapy tool to treat newborn jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia). High levels of bilirubin can cause brain damage (kernicterus), leading...
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  • reflux back into the bloodstream. This causes a primarily conjugated hyperbilirubinemia and jaundice; the liver conjugates the bile to make it water-soluble...
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  • circulation, leading to hemoglobinemia and increasing the risk of ensuing hyperbilirubinemia. Intravascular hemolysis is the state when the red blood cell ruptures...
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  • 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...
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    phototherapy heme oxygenase inhibitors to reduce transient worsening of hyperbilirubinemia (although the effect of the drug decreases over time) oral calcium...
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    induction of meconium evacuation using per rectal laxatives on neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in term infants: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials"...
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    American Academy of Pediatrics Subcommittee on Hyperbilirubinemia (July 2004). "Management of hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn infant 35 or more weeks of...
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    exam) Imaging (RUQ ultrasound) Labs (leukocytosis, transamintis, hyperbilirubinemia) Patient made NPO (nothing by mouth) IV fluids as needed General surgery...
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    baby in neonatal care under a blue-light (420–470 nm) phototherapy lamp wearing only a diaper, being treated for newborn jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia)...
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    location. Patients with subgaleal hemorrhage may also have significant hyperbilirubinemia due to resorption of hemolyzed blood. Laboratory studies may demonstrate...
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  • neonates. Do not administer with calcium and avoid in infants with hyperbilirubinemia. > 41 weeks corrected gestational age. Erythromycin is an alternative...
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    of plasma opacification that can falsely increase the MCHC include hyperbilirubinemia, hypertriglyceridemia, and free hemoglobin in the plasma (due to hemolysis)...
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