ALLMedicine™ Hyperbilirubinemia Center

Jun 26th, 2022 - The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of delayed cord clamping on bilirubin levels and phototherapy rates in neonates of diabetic mothers. This was a prospective study that enrolled pregnant women without pregnancy complications a...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - Ductopenia is often regarded as a chronic process where ≥50% of portal tracts lack bile ducts, which is also known as vanishing bile duct syndrome (VBDS). One etiology is drug-induced liver injury. Cloxacillin, an anti-staphylococcal penicillin, t...

Jun 22nd, 2022 - Neonatal phototherapy (NNPT) has long been used as an effective and relatively safe method of treating neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Considering the subsequent evidence of long-term impacts of NNPT such as malignancies, this study was conducted to ...

Jun 21st, 2022 - Exchange transfusion is the treatment of choice for patients with severe hyperbilirubinemia who do not respond to phototherapy. This procedure is highly complex and requires substantial expertise to perform, however it´s not done frequently enough...

Jun 18th, 2022 - The small-for-size syndrome (SFSS) is characterized by prolonged hyperbilirubinemia, coagulopathy, and/or encephalopathy caused by a small liver graft that cannot sustain the metabolic demands of the recipient after a partial liver transplant (PLT...

Sep 30th, 2015 - The antiretroviral protease inhibitor atazanavir inhibits hepatic uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 1A1, thereby preventing the glucuronidation and elimination of bilirubin. Resultant indirect hyperbilirubinemia with jaundice can c...

Sep 29th, 2011 - To standardize the use of phototherapy consistent with the American Academy of Pediatrics clinical practice guideline for the management of hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn infant 35 or more weeks of gestation. Relevant literature was reviewed. P...

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May 27th, 2022 - The study was conducted as a randomized controlled study to determine effect of tube bathing on skin and bilirubin levels in infants undergoing tunnel and LED of phototherapy. The population of the study consisted of term babies with the diagnosis...

May 20th, 2022 - Neonates with prematurity,gastrointestinal dysfunction and very low birth weights are often intolerant to oral feeding.In such infants,the provision of nutrients via parenteral nutrition (PN)becomes necessary for short term survival,as well as lon...

May 13th, 2022 - Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affects 5-8% of pregnant women, many of whom will require treatment beyond diet and exercise. Despite this high prevalence, there is no consensus regarding the glycemic threshold for conversion from diet to medi...

May 12th, 2022 - Supplemental feedings in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are common due to the separation of mother and neonate and/or complex medical issues that make direct breastfeeding difficult. The Supplemental Nursing System (SNS) is utilized infre...

May 3rd, 2022 - Neonatal jaundice is common and mostly transient without need for intervention. To identify infants at risk of bilirubin toxicity, bilirubin is measured several times after birth and before discharge home. As the peak bilirubin concentrations are ...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) plus lenvatinib (Lenvima) led to a significant improvement in overall survival (OS) vs lenvatinib alone as frontline therapy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to findings fro...

Jan 21st, 2022 - Yi-Bin Chen, MD: A lot of research has gone into early detection of graft-vs-host disease [GVHD]. It’s difficult to detect graft-vs-host disease early because we’d all admit that the immune response takes weeks before we see the manifestation. Why...

Nov 11th, 2021 - Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) with FOLFOX led to superior patient outcomes and less toxicity than standard of care transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) for patients with large, unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a rando...

Nov 10th, 2021 - Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) with FOLFOX led to superior patient outcomes and less toxicity than standard of care transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) for patients with large, unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a rando.

Oct 6th, 2021 - Rami S. Komrokji, MD Now that physicians have access to novel therapies for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) following a 30-year gap in therapeutic development, physicians must now aim to understand their optimal placement in treatment,...