Results: Of 1771 neonatal reports, there were 18 deaths in 8 boys and 9 girls (1 patient unclassified). The mean age at vaccination for these 18 cases was 12 days (range, 1-27 days); median time from vaccination to onset of symptoms was 2 days (range, 0-20 days); and median time from symptoms to death was 0 days (range, 0-15 days). The mean birth weight of the neonates (n = 15) was 3034 g (rang...

Neonatal lupus erythematosus is an uncommon passive autoimmune disease in which there is transplacental passage of anti-Ro/SSA and/or anti-La/SSB or anti-U1RNP maternal autoantibodies. Its common clinical manifestations include cardiac disease, notably congenital heart block, cutaneous lupus lesions, and hematologic problems. During the past decade, it has become clear that hepatobiliary diseas...

Neonatal hemochromatosis (NH) is a rare and enigmatic disease that has been clinically defined as severe neonatal liver disease in association with extrahepatic siderosis. It recurs at an alarming rate in the offspring of certain women; the rate and pattern of recurrence led us to hypothesize that maternal alloimmunity is the likely cause at least of recurrent cases. This hypothesis led to a tr...

Neonatal acute liver failure is a rare, very severe disease with a high rate of mortality. It is clinically and etiologically different from acute liver failure seen in older children and adults. Coagulopathy with an international normalized ratio ≥ 3 is the critical parameter that defines it. The most common causes are fetal alloimmune hepatitis, previously called neonatal hemochromatosis, vir...

A prospective epidemiological study of the Neonatal Hepatitis Syndrome in S.E. England showed Alpha-1Antitrypsin Deficiency (Pi ZZ) to be present in seven out offifty-two patients. Data are considered from these seven patients, and from a further six cases from outside this area. The nature of acute illness, pathological changes on early liver biopsy, and short-term prognosis show considerable ...

The hepatitis E virus (HEV) is one of the main causes acute and de facto global burden underestimated. HEV-related clinical complications are often undetected not considered in differential diagnosis. Convincing findings from studies suggest that HEV clinically relevant only developing countries but also industrialized countries. Eight genotypes (HEV-1 to HEV-8) with different human animal host...

BACKGROUND Tyrosinemia is an inherited metabolic disorder characterized by elevated levels of tyrosine and its metabolites in plasma. Without treatment, the disease will progress to hepatic and renal failure, so that without liver transplantation will cause death in less than 10 years of age. So, early diagnosis and treatment can be life saving and crucial. It means that with early treatment st...

Two cases of neonatal hepatitis are described, one related to cytomegalovirus infection and the other idiopathic. In both infants a transient abnormality of the alpha 1-antitrypsin phenotype, inconsistent with the parent's phenotypes, reverted to normal during the convalescent phase of the illness.

Coxsackievirus B (CVB) is a significant pathogen of neonatal diseases with severe systemic involvement and high mortality. Hence, it is essential to develop a CVB-induced acute systemic disease model on newborn mouse and study the injury at the onset phase. In this work, a clinical strain of CVB3, Nancy, and its variant strain, Macocy, were adopted in 24 hour old neonates by oral infection. The...

Background: Hepatitis E is considered as a common cause of high maternal morbidity and mortality particularly in third trimester also perinatal mortality. Thus, this study conducted to evaluate the feto-maternal outcome patients infected with hepatitis during pregnancy.Methods: It retrospective observational department obstetrics gynecology at L. G. hospital. Fifty pregnant women clinical pregn...