Outcomes of neonatal jaundice in Taiwan

Phenobarbitone in neonatal jaundice.

Sinniah, D., Tay, L. K., and Dugdale, A. E. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 712. Phenobarbitone in neonatal jaundice. Eighty-three jaundiced newborn infants were studied, 41 received phenobarbitone, and 42 served as controls. 48 hours after starting treatment the mean serum bilirubin level of the group of normal birthweight infants was significantly lower than that of controls. Ex...

Neonatal jaundice.

This article discusses the production, transport, and excretion of bilirubin in the newborn period. The causes, significance, and treatment of unconjugated and conjugated hyperbilirubinemia are different; and because this is so, it is important to review the main causes and management of unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia. Conjugated hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn period could be either due to ...

Neonatal Jaundice

Neonatal jaundice [2] is the yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes due to elevated bilirubin levels in the bloodstream of a newborn. Bilirubin is a byproduct of the breakdown of red blood cells. Jaundiced infants are unable to process bilirubin at a normal rate or they have an abnormally high amount of bilirubin in their bloodstream, resulting in a buildup of the yellow colored bilirubin. T...

[Neonatal jaundice].

Nuclear Jaundice in Neonatal

It is a well-known fact that after familial jaundice in the new-born there not rarely remain certain cerebral symptoms which are related to a particular localization of the icteric staining in the brain substance, especially in the basal ganglia. The first description of icterus gravis neonatorum was given by Orthl', and the familial character was stressed by Schmorl2. In recent years a number ...