Value of cord blood albumin and bilirubin in the prediction of pathological hyperbilirubinemia in preterm neonates

Background: Preterm infants have a higher incidence of indirect hyperbilirubinemia than term in about 80% cases. Approach to initial screening for preterm by cord blood is practical, cheap and noninvasive. Objectives: To determine the value albumin, bilirubin bilirubin/albumin ratio predict pathological infants. Materials method: A prospective cohort study was carried out all < 37 weeks, were born at Hospital University Medicine Pharmacy, Hue, Viet Nam from 4/2018 8/2020. Cord albumin collected after birth. Neonates followed up daily hyperbilirubinemia. Check serum levels on second day birth whenever an infant has significant Results: We studied 176 with jaundice, 88/176 (50%) had At cut-off point total > 1.818 mg/dl 0.518 good predictive detecting hyperbilirubin AUC 0.854 0.842 respectively. However, no 0.524. Conclusion: discrimination predicting Key words: neonate, preterm, hyperbilirubinemia, bilirubin, ratio.