Diagnostic Evaluation of Neonatal Cholestasis: HIDA Scan and Alagille Criteria

Diagnostic Evaluation of Neonatal Cholestasis: HIDA Scan and Alagille Criteria

1Department of Pediatric Gastroentrology, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center (ADIR), Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3Department of Radiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4Department of ...

diagnostic evaluation of neonatal cholestasis: hida scan and alagille criteria

Neonatal cholestasis and hypopituitarism 787 Neonatal cholestasis and hypopituitarism

Optic nerve hypoplasia with hypopituitarism and intact septum pellucidum is a variant of septo-optic dysplasia or deMorsier's syndrome.' Although neonatal jaundice has been seen with this syndrome, the association with severe prolonged cholestatic jaundice has not been emphasised. We describe three patients who presented with cholestatic jaundice and were found to have optic nerve hypoplasia an...

Neonatal Cholestasis – Differential Diagnoses, Current Diagnostic Procedures, and Treatment

Cholestatic jaundice in early infancy is a complex diagnostic problem. Misdiagnosis of cholestasis as physiologic jaundice delays the identification of severe liver diseases. In the majority of infants, prolonged physiologic jaundice represent benign cases of breast milk jaundice, but few among them are masked and caused by neonatal cholestasis (NC) that requires a prompt diagnosis and treatmen...

Neonatal cholestasis and hypopituitarism.

We read with interest the paper by Kaufman et al' on neonatal cholestasis and hypopituitarism. We have been treating a similar patient whose problems were complicated by diabetes insipidus of pituitary origin. She was referred from another hospital at the age of 1 month for assessment of secondary hypothyroidism, cholestatic jaundice, temperature instability, and microcephaly. She was born at 4...