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, wer...

OBJECTIVES Evaluate safety and efficacy of filtered-sunlight phototherapy (FS-PT). METHODS Term/late preterm infants #14 days old with clinically significant jaundice, assessed by total bilirubin (TB) levels, were recruited from a maternity hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. Sunlight was filtered with commercial window-tinting films that remove most UV and significant levels of infrared light and tr...

UNLABELLED Biliary atresia is the most common cause of death from liver disease in children. Although the Kasai operation before 60 days of age can significantly improve prognosis, delay in referral and surgery remains a formidable problem worldwide because of difficulties in differentiating it from benign prolonged neonatal jaundice. We established a universal screening system using an infant ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is widely accepted for visualization of the biliary system. However, the sensitivity and specificity of MRCP for the diagnosis of biliary atresia (BA) are still not fully elucidated. This study aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of three-dimensional MRCP (3D-MRCP) for BA in a large cohort of cholestatic infants a...

Breast milk jaundice is a kind of caused by breastfeeding in new-borns. It occurs within the first week life as result an aberrant accumulation bilirubin, resulting jaundice, and yellowish staining neonate's skin. Objectives study were to depict breastmilk its etiology, review pathophysiology discuss medical nursing management jaundice.

AIMS To present the perceptions of women in rural Malawi regarding the health problems affecting neonates and infants and to explore the relevance of these perceptions for child health policy and strategy in Malawi. METHODS Women's groups in Mchinji district identified newborn and infant health problems (204 groups, 3484 women), prioritised problems they considered most important (204 groups,...

Neonatal jaundice is a relatively prevalent disease. Probiotics supplementation therapy could assist to improve the recovery of neonatal jaundice.

Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and alpha 1-antitrypsin (A1AT) deficiency are separately well described entities, but their simultaneous occurrence can pose a special challenge to a clinician, especially dealing with optimal diagnostic as well as therapeutic approach. Congenital CMV infection is the most common vertically transmitted infection in developed countries. In 85-95% of new...