The accuracy of transcutaneous bilirubin meters has been assessed in newborns from various ethnic backgrounds. However, there are limited data on Greek newborns. Our study examined the accuracy of transcutaneous bilirubin measurements in clinically jaundiced healthy-term Greek newborns, using total serum bilirubin as the reference standard, in order to re-evaluate our local guidelines about neo...

The aims of this study were to determine the incidence of UTI in asymptomatic jaundiced neonates in the first two weeks of life , and to determine which historical and laboratory parameters are associated with UTI in those neonates.The study included 153 full -term jaundiced neonates less than two weeks old who had been admitted in hospital for management of jaundice. Work-up for hyperbilirubin...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Breastfed newborns are more likely to develop prolonged hyperbilirubinemia than those fed formula, but the prevalence of prolonged hyperbilirubinemia in a largely white, North American breastfed population is unknown. In this population, we documented the natural history of jaundice and the prevalence of prolonged hyperbilirubinemia, and we evaluated the utility of ass...

Featured Article: Stocker R, Yamamoto Y, McDonagh AF, Glazer AN, Ames BN. Bilirubin is an antioxidant of possible physiological importance. Science 1987;235: 1043– 6. My interest in bilirubin, a product of heme catabolism in mammals, was sparked by 2 momentous and interrelated events in 1983. The first was the premature birth of my eldest daughter, Sophie. The second was her treatment with “blu...

©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ, March 17, 2015, 187(5) 335 Pediatricians and family physicians deal regularly with jaundiced newborn infants who emerge unscathed from their transient exposure to an elevated serum bilirubin level. Yet, despite published guidelines for the management of neonatal jaundice, there are rare infants in whom bilirubin encephalopathy develops. Canada cu...

A simple modification to Fielding and Brunström's method for the estimation of ferri-oxamine is described for use with jaundiced urine. Manufactured ferrioxamine HC1 may be slightly impure, and when used for standard purposes should be rendered anhydrous and checked for iron content. Standard ferrioxamine solutions suitable for calibrating Fielding and Brunström's method may be prepared by addi...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of hypocalcemia in term neonates with jaundice receiving phototherapy. METHODS This was a cross sectional study conducted at Neonatal intensive care unit, National Institute of Child Health, Karachi from 1st January 2014 to 30th December 2014. A total of 123 term neonates with jaundice of either gender managed by phototherapy were enrolled in the study. Ge...

A congenital choledochal cyst presented as an upper abdominal mass in a non-jaundiced woman; at laparotomy total cystectomy was performed and biliary enteric continuity re-established by a hepaticojejunostomy Roux-en-Y anastomosis.

A young man of 24 developed glandular fever, became jaundiced, and died in hepatic coma. At necropsy massive necrosis of the liver was found, thus emphasizing that all grades of severity of liver damage may occur in infectious mononucleosis.

Preterm jaundiced infants were treated by phototherapy with a new turquoise fluorescent lamp. This was more effective in reducing plasma total bilirubin in relation to light irradiance than the ubiquitously used blue fluorescent lamp.