Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), emerged in China December 2019 and now has led to a global pandemic. The incidence is lower neonates. A five days old newborn infant got admitted with history of reluctance feeding less movement. On admission, the was found be lethargic, icteric, tachypnoeic, afebrile SPO2 90% throughout his h...

Introduction: Diagnostic enzymology plays a useful role in evaluation of various hepatobiliary diseases and numerous enzymes have been compared in different disorders. Among these, significance of Gamma Glutamyl Transferase and 5’ Nucleotidase over Alkaline Phosphatase has been stressed repeatedly, but mainly in the icteric obstructive biliary disease patients. In this study, these three enzyme...

bakground: phototherapy plays a significant role in the treatment and prevention of hyperbilirubinemia as well as the management of subsequent complications in the newborn.  however, this treatment modality may itself result in the development of hypocalcaemia and create serious complications including convulsion and related conditions.   objective: this study was under-taken to investigate pho...

Background: Glucose -6-phosphate (G6PD) deficiency seems to be a major cause of neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia. This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of G6PD deficiency among icteric neonates in western Iraq and to evaluate its association with hemolysis in neonatal jaundice. Patients and Methods: All icteric neonates admitted to Al-Ramadi Maternity and Paediatrics hospital, Al-A...

In 11 years and 3 months, 2,037 patients with HCC were seen and 48 patients (2.4%) were diagnosed to have obstructive icteric type HCC. Five patients were terminally ill and were not investigated further. Forty three patients were initially investigated by endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) or percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram (PTC) and classified as having obstructive icteric ty...