OBJECTIVE Preterm and low birth weight (LBW) infants are at greater risk of developing bilirubin-associated brain damage compared with term infants. Certainly, phototherapy, if used appropriately, is capable of controlling the bilirubin levels in LBW infants; but there is not a unique phototherapy treatment strategy in LBW infants. This study was designed to compare the prophylactic phototherap...

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this work was to compare the predictive accuracy of alternative risk-assessment strategies used to screen for the risk of significant neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. PATIENTS AND METHODS.We conducted a prospective cohort study of 823 term and nearterm newborns admitted to the well-infant nursery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Maternal, infant, and deli...

normal full-term infants were followed by serial transcutaneous bilirubinometry over the first week of life. the pattern of physiologic jaundice in our population was similar to that shown for white infants. mean maximum bilirubin peak was seen on day four of life and was also similar to that shown for american white infants. the incidence of non physiologic hyperbilirubinemia defined as 2 sd a...

A term male infant was born by spontaneous vaginal delivery to a 23 year old gravida 2 para mother. His weight, length, and head circumference were 2720g (8%), 47cm (6%) 31.5cm (1%) respectively; the remainder of his physical examination unremarkable. The pregnancy complicated intra-uterine growth retardation, gestational diabetes controlled with glyburide, thrombocytopenia. mother had past med...

Introduction: Hyperbilirubinemia is one of the most common diagnoses neonatal period affecting about 60% babies born around term 1,8 . The clinical evaluation jaundice only through inspection insufficient. accurate way assessing it measuring value venous bilirubin (VB), which an invasive method. A simpler to measure transcutaneous (TB), a spectrometric method that evaluates based on skin color ...

INTRODUCTION Jaundice is the yellowish pigmentation of the skin, sclera, and mucous membranes resulting from bilirubin deposition. Children born to mothers with HIV are more likely to be born premature, with low birth weight, and to become septic-all risk factors for neonatal jaundice. Further, there has been a change in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV guidelines f...