One of the most typical clinical manifestations infant is hyperbilirubinemia. Jaundice sends more than 85% term newborns back to hospital within first week life. 60% and 80% preterm (less term) infants have If hyper bilirubin not appropriately treated, it can damage brain cells, cause seizures, progress kernicterus, even causing death. Even if newborn gets kernicterus recovers be passed, baby g...

This study was conducted to evaluate the haematological effects of the timing of umbilical cord clamping in term infants 24 h after birth in Libya. Mother-infant pairs were randomly assigned to early cord clamping (within 10s after delivery) or delayed clamping (after the cord stopped pulsating). Maternal haematological status was assessed on admission in the delivery room. Infant haematologica...

Detailed clinical observations by Hench (1933, 1934) established that hepatogenous jaundice ameliorated rheumatoid arthritis and fibrositis. Reports followed of remissions attending jaundice induced by the injection of bile salts and bilirubin (Thompson and Wyatt, 1938), by inoculation with infectious jaundice (Gardner, Stewart, and MacCallum, 1945), and by lactophenin (Hanssen, 1942), in addit...

Objective: Kangaroo mother care (KMC) was reported to be correlated with the time of phototherapy for babies with neonatal jaundice in the previous studies. The purpose of this study was to verify the effectiveness of KMC on phototherapy for neonatal jaundice. Methods: 216 newborn babies with neonatal jaundice were collected in this study and randomly divided into KMC group and control group. 1...

Discharge of the term newborn is a critical issue in perinatal care. The average length of stay of the motherinfant dyad after delivery declined steadily from 1970 until the mid-1990s (early discharge ≤ 48 hours, very early discharge ≤ 24 hours after birth) [1]. Several subsequent studies [2-5] have reported that too short a hospital stay can place an infant at risk for significant jaundice, fe...

BACKGROUND Hyperbilirubinemia, or jaundice, is a life threatening disorder in newborns. It is a multifactorial disorder with many symptoms. Generally, the physiological jaundice is the most prevalent type however in some regions pathological jaundice is also common. This review article focuses on a brief introduction to jaundice, its types and causes, measuring the bilirubin level, clinical app...

In the last few years the pathogenesis of icterus neonatorum and kernikterus has aroused renewed interest (Napp and Plotz, 1949; Obrinsky, Allen and Anderson, 1954; Billing, Cole and Lathe, 1954; Meyer, 1956). The discovery by Schmid (1956) and Billing, Cole and Lathe (1957) that bilirubin is excreted in the bile as a glucuronide now makes it possible to reinvestigate this problem more specific...

liver injury occurs with many drugs; therefore, a thorough work up is important for establishing the diagnosis. we report a case of trifluoperazine-induced cholestatic jaundice. a 44-year old male with schizoaffective disorder developed an increase in liver enzymes and jaundice after starting treatment with trifluoperazine. workup for other potential etiologies was negative.

background a significant proportion of individuals undergoing cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholelithiasis persist with symptoms even after surgery. objectives this study was aimed to test our hypothesis that age of presentation and duration of symptoms are the risk factors that predispose to negative symptomatic outcome after cholecystectomy. patients and methods 351 patients with diagnosis ...