A Boy Exhibiting Nervous Symptoms Ascribed to Kernicterus with Septic Neonatal Jaundice as Cause

Pioneers in the scientific study of neonatal jaundice and kernicterus.

Neonatal jaundice must have been noticed by caregivers through the centuries, but the scientific description and study of this phenomenon seem to have started in the last half of the 18th century. In 1785 Jean Baptiste Thimotée Baumes was awarded a prize from the University of Paris for his work describing the clinical course in 10 jaundiced infants. The work by Jaques Hervieux, which he defend...

A rare cause of neonatal persistent jaundice.

Oliveira GN, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-223306 Description A 22-year-old gravida 2, para 1 (G2P1) woman with immunoglobulin anti-D prophylaxis, insulin-treated gestational diabetes and first-trimester cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection vaginally delivered a 39-week boy weighing 3720 g (90th centile) and with Apgar scores of 8 and 10 at 1 and 5 min. Prenatal ultrasonographic ass...

On the cause of nuclear jaundice in neonatal sepsis with jaundice.

Less aggressive treatment of neonatal jaundice and reports of kernicterus: lessons about practice guidelines.

The publication of guidelines calling for less aggressive treatment of jaundice in newborns has been followed by a reappearance of case reports of kernicterus. These case reports illustrate important issues for writers and consumers of practice guidelines. One issue is the particular salience of identified patients with bad outcomes, and their potentially disproportionate influence on decision-...

Kernicterus: A Preventable Neonatal Brain Injury

Kernicterus, one of the most easily preventable causes of brain injury from severe neonatal jaundice, has re-emerged in the United States and other nations with well developed healthcare systems as a public and societal health concern. Kernicterus, in its usually recognized form, causes devastating disabilities including athetoid cerebral palsy (CP) and speech and hearing impairment. It represe...