ALLMedicine™ Jaundice Center

Dec 1st, 2021 - ABO incompatibility is a common cause of neonatal indirect hyperbilirubinemia. The direct antiglobulin test (DAT) can identify infants developing hemolytic disease. This study aims to evaluate the significance of DAT positivity among neonates with...

Dec 1st, 2021 - To evaluate the efficacy and safety of brachytherapy with double-strand 125I seeds and biliary drainage for malignant obstructive jaundice. 42 patients with obstructive jaundice because of extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma were enrolled. 22 patients...

Nov 29th, 2021 - Invasive infection with group B streptococcus (GBS) can lead to intrauterine infection, and GBS can also spread via vertical transmission between mother and infant, resulting in adverse pregnancy outcomes. This study aimed to investigate the effec...

Nov 25th, 2021 - Post-cholecystectomy transected bile ducts (TBDs) are not amenable to standard endoscopic management. Combined ERCP and endosonography (CERES) including EUS-guided hepaticoenterostomy enhance therapeutic biliary endoscopy. CERES treatment of post-...

Nov 25th, 2021 - Biliary atresia is a serious neonatal liver disease due to obstructed bile ducts that has better outcomes when detected and treated in the first 30-45 days of life. This review examines different methods to screen newborns for biliary atresia as w...

May 1st, 2021 - Idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is common in gastroenterology and hepatology practices, and it can have multiple presentations, ranging from asymptomatic elevations in liver biochemistries to hepatocellular or cholestatic jaundice, ...

Nov 21st, 2020 - Delayed umbilical cord clamping appears to be beneficial for term and preterm infants. In term infants, delayed umbilical cord clamping increases hemoglobin levels at birth and improves iron stores in the first several months of life, which may ha...

Nov 21st, 2020 - Delayed umbilical cord clamping appears to be beneficial for term and preterm infants. In term infants, delayed umbilical cord clamping increases hemoglobin levels at birth and improves iron stores in the first several months of life, which may ha...

May 6th, 2019 - Biliary obstruction is a serious condition that can occur in the setting of both benign and malignant pathologies. In the setting of acute cholangitis, biliary decompression can be lifesaving; for patients with cancer who are receiving chemotherap...

May 6th, 2019 - Jaundice is the end result of myriad causes, which makes the role of imaging in this setting particularly challenging. In the United States, the most common causes of all types of jaundice fall into four categories including hepatitis, alcoholic l...

Nov 24th, 2021 - Cerebral palsy (CP) is a permanent disorder of movement or posture due to non-progressive impairments of the developing brain. In children, CP is the most common cause of motor impairment, which is often accompanied by other disorders such as epil...

Nov 16th, 2021 - 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 ...

Nov 5th, 2021 - Blood samples will be collected from three populations: preterm infants, term infants and healthy adult controls. In addition, a collection of meconium (<1mL) from the diaper of these term and preterm neonates; Term neonates (gestational age 37-42...

Nov 1st, 2021 - Through a prospective cohort study of healthy term and near-term infants, the study tries to truly reflect the epidemiology, intervention status, and outcomes of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and the cost. Hopefully, by improving the quality of mana...

Oct 15th, 2021 - This retrospective monocentric study aims at comparing multimodality endoscopic biliary drainage versus percutaneous radiologic biliary drainage in case of perihilar malignant obstruction. Data from patients admitted in the Nancy University Hospit...

Oct 6th, 2021 - Francis P. Arena, MD Director, NYU Langone Arena Oncology Clinical Associate Professor NYU Langone Medical Center New York, NY E. Gabriela Chiorean, MD Associate Professor, Medicine University of Washin...

Oct 6th, 2021 - We recently traveled to Miami, Florida, for a State of the Science Summit™ on Gastrointestinal Malignancies. Targeted therapy has become an important fixture in oncogene-driven cancers, particularly in BRAF V600E-mutant metastatic colorectal cance...

Oct 6th, 2021 - Yttrium-90 (Y-90) glass microspheres (TheraSphere) administered in a personalized, dosimetric approach demonstrated a 16-month improvement in overall survival (OS) compared with a standard dosimetric approach in patients with unresectable hepatoce...

Oct 6th, 2021 - James J. Harding, MD After years of little advancement, novel agents and combination strategies are now introducing paradigm-shifting options for the treatment patients with advanced or metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), said James J. Har...

Aug 17th, 2021 - Dietary supplements containing Garcinia cambogia extract (G. cambogia) led to liver injuries that were clinically indistinguishable from green tea injuries, an analysis of the Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network revealed. Among over 1,400 cases of d...