ALLMedicine™ Bilirubin Center

Feb 23rd, 2021 - A 61-year-old woman with no significant previous medical history presented to an urgent care facility with generalised rash, flushing and abdominal pain after eating mahi-mahi. She was diagnosed with an allergic reaction and discharged home. Later...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - Bilirubin has potential predictive and prognostic value for myocardial infarction (MI), but the clinical evidence remains controversial. We performed this meta-analysis to systematically quantify the relationships between circulating bilirubin lev...

Feb 21st, 2021 - Acquired pure red cell aplasia is a rare condition characterized by normocytic normochromic anemia with severe reticulocytopenia. In refractory acquired pure red cell aplasia, the low response rate of immunosuppressive therapy also constitutes a c...

Feb 20th, 2021 - Hyperbilirubinemia is one of the most common problems in infancy in the world. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of foot therapy and body massage on physiological indicators and bilirubin levels in infants under phototherapy. This st...

Feb 17th, 2021 - Comparing the efficacy, safety and outcome of percutaneous intrervention for Budd-Chiari Syndrome (BCS) patients with bilirubin less than 3 and 3-6 mg dl-1. 188 BCS patients having serum bilirubin ≤6 mg dl-1 and underwent percutaneous intervention...

Jan 1st, 2018 - The liver is the most metabolically complex organ. Hepatocytes (liver parenchymal cells) perform the liver’s metabolic functions: Formation and excretion of bile during bilirubin metabolism (see Overview of Bilirubin Metabolism) Regulation of car...

Jun 30th, 2017 - Clinicians are required to assess abnormal liver chemistries on a daily basis. The most common liver chemistries ordered are serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin. These tests sh...

Dec 20th, 2016 - Clinicians are required to assess abnormal liver chemistries on a daily basis. The most common liver chemistries ordered are serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin. These tests sh...

Sep 29th, 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...

Dec 13th, 2011 - Prevention of acute bilirubin encephalopathy and kernicterus in newborns: position statement #3049.|2011| ,|blood,complications,diagnosis,prevention & control,etiology,prevention & control,methods,

Feb 23rd, 2021 - A 61-year-old woman with no significant previous medical history presented to an urgent care facility with generalised rash, flushing and abdominal pain after eating mahi-mahi. She was diagnosed with an allergic reaction and discharged home. Later...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - Bilirubin has potential predictive and prognostic value for myocardial infarction (MI), but the clinical evidence remains controversial. We performed this meta-analysis to systematically quantify the relationships between circulating bilirubin lev...

Feb 21st, 2021 - Acquired pure red cell aplasia is a rare condition characterized by normocytic normochromic anemia with severe reticulocytopenia. In refractory acquired pure red cell aplasia, the low response rate of immunosuppressive therapy also constitutes a c...

Feb 20th, 2021 - Hyperbilirubinemia is one of the most common problems in infancy in the world. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of foot therapy and body massage on physiological indicators and bilirubin levels in infants under phototherapy. This st...

Feb 17th, 2021 - Comparing the efficacy, safety and outcome of percutaneous intrervention for Budd-Chiari Syndrome (BCS) patients with bilirubin less than 3 and 3-6 mg dl-1. 188 BCS patients having serum bilirubin ≤6 mg dl-1 and underwent percutaneous intervention...

Dec 30th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The Albumin-Bilirubin (ALBI) score more accurately predicted outcomes in patients undergoing pulmonary, elective colorectal and adrenal operations than the Model for End Stage Liver Disease-sodium (MELD-Na) in a medical...

Sep 2nd, 2020 - Genetically raised serum bilirubin may protect against lung cancer in people exposed to high levels of smoke oxidants, suggests data from UK Biobank. The study, carried out by researchers from University College London, Cambridge University and th...

Aug 18th, 2020 - As I listened to our fellow present the case of a 5-month-old infant referred for evaluation of persistent jaundice, painful memories of several similar cases flashed by, causing me to ask, "Is this another late diagnosis of biliary atresia?" This...

Aug 18th, 2020 - As I listened to our fellow present the case of a 5-month-old infant referred for evaluation of persistent jaundice, painful memories of several similar cases flashed by, causing me to ask, "Is this another late diagnosis of biliary atresia?" This...

Jul 7th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Various interventions could reduce the largely overlooked high kernicterus rate among Black infants, a new review suggests. Black neonates account for about 14% of births in the U.S. but more than 25% of reported cases ...