Aetiology of Post-arsphenamine Jaundice

Post-Arsphenamine Blood Dyscrasias

Coincidental obstructive and post-hepatitic cholestatic jaundice.

Introduction Obstructive jaundice due to carcinoma of the pancreas is uncommon in patients under the age of 40, where jaundice is usually a sequel to viral hepatitis, drug ingestion, alcohol or gallstone disease. The appearance of extra-hepatic obstruction due to carcinoma during the cholestatic phase of viral hepatitis is unusual.

Incidence and Possible Relation to Athetosis of Neonatal Jaundice of Unknown Aetiology.

It is still not clear whether jaundice of unknown aetiology, developing during the neonatal period, is of significance for the subsequent development of athetosis and related diseases. In a previous study (Trolle, 1961), the author calculated that among children who have had neonatal jaundice of unknown aetiology, athetosis of later onset is so uncommon that the decision to perform an exchange ...

Post-halothane jaundice in relation to previous administration of halothane.

The time interval since previous anaesthesia was compared in a surgical population in South Wales and in patients who developed jaundice after halothane. There was a significant difference in the pattern of time interval since previous general anaesthetics in the surgical population and in those patients who developed jaundice after halothane. In the group who developed jaundice there was an "e...

Cholestatic jaundice in infancy. The importance of familial and genetic factors in aetiology and prognosis.

One hundred and twenty-four infants admitted to hospitals in Norway between 1955 and 1974 during the first 3 months of life with cholestatic jaundice were studied retrospectively. Sixty-four infants had had extrahepatic atresia of the biliary tree and 60 had had intrahepatic cholestasis. This gives an incidence of about 1:9000 live births for cholestasis. In 4 of the 64 infants with extra-hepat...