Neonatal Cholestasis: A Red Alert for the Jaundiced Newborn

Managing the jaundiced newborn: a persistent challenge.

©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ, March 17, 2015, 187(5) 335 Pediatricians and family physicians deal regularly with jaundiced newborn infants who emerge unscathed from their transient exposure to an elevated serum bilirubin level. Yet, despite published guidelines for the management of neonatal jaundice, there are rare infants in whom bilirubin encephalopathy develops. Canada cu...

Intrahepatic cholestasis in the newborn.

Hitherto little attention has been paid to cholestatic jaundice in the newborn which occurs in the absence of rhesus incompatibility. 4 such cases, among a consecutive series of 24 newborns with prolonged neonatal jaundice occurring in the Devon and Exeter clinical area since 1960, are here described in detail to demonstrate that their clinical and histological picture, and their prognosis, is ...

Neonatal cholestasis.

2004;25;388 Pediatrics in Review Frederick J. Suchy Neonatal Cholestasis http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/25/11/388 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/suppl/2005/01/26/25.11.388.DC1.html Data Supplement (unedited) at: Pediatrics. All rights reserved. ...

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...

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