RT Book, Section
A1 Hardasmalani, Madhu D.
A2 Tenenbein, Milton
A2 Macias, Charles G.
A2 Sharieff, Ghazala Q.
A2 Yamamoto, Loren G.
A2 Schafermeyer, Robert
SR Print(0)
ID 1155427531
T1 Liver Disease and Gallbladder
T2 Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259860751
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1155427531
RD 2024/04/23
AB Jaundice  within  the  first  24  hours  of  life  is  NEVER  normal.Urinary  tract  infections  and  sepsis  can  be  associated  with  the  onset  of  hyperbilirubinemia  after  a  week  of  age.Consider  hemolytic  disease  in  case  of  unconjugated  hyperbilirubinemia  beyond  the  neonatal  period.Conjugated  hyperbilirubinemia  in  the  neonate  indicates  hepatobiliary  dysfunction,  most  commonly  due  to  biliary  atresia.Acute  cholangitis  should  be  suspected  in  any  patient  with  fever  and  jaundice  who  has  had  surgical  correction  of  biliary  atresia.