jaundice

..We analyzed the association between IL28B and the clinical presentation of acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in a homogeneous population...

..rare case of GS of the colon and liver infiltration in a 60-year-old male patient with AML presenting with jaundice and hematochezia and review the literature...

..in hepatic biochemical tests are common in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), overt jaundice is infrequent...

There is little information on the diverse infectious causes of jaundice and hepatitis in the Asiatic tropics...

To describe the clinical characteristics, laboratory parameters and prognostic factors in patients with falciparum malaria (FM) with jaundice.

..The type of surgery to be performed should also be reviewed. All patients with postoperative jaundice should be evaluated for a history of liver disease...

..Previous studies have noted that jaundice may be one of the first signs of a bacterial infection in infants...

..The combination of photodynamic therapy and biliary stenting seems to be beneficial in the palliative treatment of unresectable cholangiocarcinoma. We aimed to assess the accuracy of photodynamic therapy in a single centre...

..Soon after its introduction in 1910, intravenous arsphenamine treatment for syphilis was found to be complicated by jaundice. The underlying cause, unsterile syringes and needles, was eventually recognised in the early 1940s, mainly ..

..8 +/- 3.4 mg/dL, p = 0.02). In the steady state, similar rates of hemolysis, but increased PTB in the G-6-PD- deficient, (TA)7/(TA)7 homozygotes, imply that (TA)7/(TA)7, homozygosity is central to increased PTB...

b>Jaundice associated with co-amoxiclav has been increasingly recognised. We aimed to characterise its clinical and histological features and to investigate linkage with human leucocyte antigen class II haplotypes.

b>Jaundice is not an unusual accompaniment of malaria. It can occur due to intravascular hemolysis, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and, rarely, 'malarial hepatitis'...

b>Jaundice in an adult patient can be caused by a wide variety of benign or life-threatening disorders. Organizing the differential diagnosis by prehepatic, intrahepatic, and posthepatic causes may help make the work-up more manageable...

..The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of preoperative biliary stenting and resolution of jaundice on subsequent postoperative survival following resection for pancreatic cancer.

..Until these values for prevalence and penetrance are known, genetic testing for Gilbert's syndrome cannot be recommended on a routine basis...

To determine the incidence and causes of drug-induced jaundice in a rural community.

..assess the efficacy of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) on the survival of patients with alcohol-induced cirrhosis and jaundice. We included patients with histologically proven alcohol-induced cirrhosis and serum bilirubin >50 micromol/L...

..0 and 20.0 mg/dL), and biliary obstruction by the tumor appeared to have caused this sudden jaundice. To treat the biliary obstruction, selective transcatheter chemoembolization (TACE) was performed via the feeding ..

..factor (HGF), interleukin (IL)-6, and IL-1 receptor antagonist (ra) levels in the evaluation of disease status in jaundice-free survivors with biliary atresia after Kasai operation...

A 24-year-old Iraqi was admitted to our hospital with acute generalised jaundice and intermittent epigastric pain. His family doctor suspected a viral hepatitis...

..b>Jaundice and hepatomegaly were significantly associated with renal failure (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 3...

..The purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence and nature of postoperative jaundice in patients undergoing cardiac operation, to analyze the determinants, and to identify the clinical significance ..

BACKGROUND: Conjugated jaundice arising during infancy may be caused by a number of different surgical conditions...

..during cholecystectomy, causing near circumferential, extraluminal common hepatic duct compression, and clinical jaundice 1 year later. METHODS: The patient experienced jaundice and pruritus 12 months after laparoscopic cholecystectomy...

The contribution of viral hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and malaria to jaundice among pregnant women in Luanda, Angola, was studied...

..incidence of pancreatic metastasis of lung cancer has been reported in autopsy series, symptomatic cases with jaundice due to that is very rare...

..16 [0.03-0.85], P = 0.03). Helminth-infected controls were less likely to have jaundice (AOR, 0.39 [0.16-0.96], P = 0.04) or to have peripheral mature schizonts (AOR, 0.2 [0.07-0.62], P = 0...

Postoperative jaundice and TPN-induced hepatic abnormalities represent clinical situations that stem from multiple and frequently overlapping insults to the liver...

To evaluate clinicopathological features of ampullary carcinoma without jaundice.

..Infection is endemic in developing countries. Disease course is benign, and severe jaundice is rarely reported. Three patients presented to our department with symptomatic acute hepatitis...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate the ability of the clinician to detect the presence and discriminate the extent of clinical anemia, fever, and jaundice in an ED or hospitalized patient.

Patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) may develop severe disease exacerbations (flare) with jaundice, and some may progress to fulminant hepatic failure...

Between January and March 2001, an outbreak of jaundice and hemorrhagic fever occurred in the state of Minas Gerais, Southeast region of Brazil, in which a mortality rate of 53% was reported...

..Taken together, these findings suggest that IL-17E is a unique pleiotropic cytokine and may be an important mediator of inflammatory and immune responses...

A prospective study of 113 patients with jaundice and 20 patients with unjaundiced cholestasis was carried out to evaluate the value of serum tumour markers, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and monoclonal antibodies CA 50 and CA 242, in ..

..Acute febrile illness, hepatitis, and pneumonia are the 3 most common manifestations of this condition, whereas jaundice is rarely reported among patients with acute Q fever...

Hyperbilirubinemia, or jaundice, is common in the ICU, with incidence up to 40% among critically ill patients. Unfortunately, it is poorly understood in the critically ill, and too often presents a diagnostic dilemma to the ICU physician...

..At necropsy, fish from field cases exhibited signs of jaundice accompanied by pale light-brown livers and dark spleens...

Patients with jaundice require rapid diagnosis and treatment, yet such patients are often subject to delay.

..The aim of this study was to assess risk factors for LD in critically ill patients...

..A left hepatectomy finally revealed a mucinous cystadenoma with pseudo-ovarian stroma that had a pedunculated intraductal extension to the biliary convergence...

To investigate the significance of jaundice noted in the first 24 hours after birth in a community setting.

A survey of the tribals of Western Madhya Pradesh of India for the treatment of jaundice has yielded 13 plants for this purpose. Part of the plant used, dosage, duration, restriction on intake of food etc. has been reported.

..No patient was rechallenged with the drug. CONCLUSION: Nevirapine can be associated with icteric hepatitis, which appears to be reversible after withdrawal of the drug...

..the paradoxical clinical phenotype of an undetected severe hemolysis in parallel with the development of severe jaundice in a 13-year-old male suffering from a confirmed interaction of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (..

b>Jaundice and colic pain of the right upper quadrant are the main symptoms of biliary diseases. Gallstone-related diseases often lead to hospital admission...

..On the basis of results of the present study, we suggest that microsphere-based delivery system may help in development of safe, effective and alternate strategy for the treatment of hyperbilirubinemic conditions in model animals...

..METHODS: Fifty infants aged <3 mths who developed prolonged jaundice among 2128 infants with UTI from 1984 to 2004 were enrolled retrospectively...

OBJECTIVE: Acute viral hepatitis C-induced jaundice in pregnancy is very rare and may be fatal. Here, we report a complicated case with acute hepatitis C-induced jaundice in pregnancy with successful management...

..The present case suggests that anti-oxidative agents might be effective for the treatment of asthma...

..The aim of this study was to determine the ability of G17DT to generate anti-gastrin antibodies in jaundiced patients with biliary obstruction due to advanced pancreatic cancer...

..by placement of a stent during ERCP, but this is often complicated by clogging of the stent with subsequent jaundice and/or cholangitis. Stent clogging may be caused by microbiological adhesion and biliary stasis...

A 66-year-old white male presented with jaundice, pruritus, and a 30-pound weight loss over two months. Physical examination revealed scleral icterus...

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..BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine simple predictors for quality of life (QOL) in long-term jaundice-free survivors after the Kasai operation...

..is thought to be lacking in the disadvantages of old devices and could be potentially useful for diagnosing jaundice in preterm babies...

b>Jaundice, a common condition with many different causes, is marked by yellow discoloration of the sclerae, mucous membranes and skin...

A 55 year old female patient was diagnosed because of painless jaundice and weight loss. She had undergone conventional cholecystectomy 15 years before.

..Eleven patients (50%) had pronounced abnormalities: jaundice (4/22), gammaglutamyl transferase higher than 5 times the normal value (10/22), alkaline phosphatase higher than ..

b>Jaundice is a symptom with a multitude of possible causes. These can be divided up into primary diseases of bilirubin metabolism, secondary hyperbilirubinemia in patients with liver disease, and diseases with bile duct occlusion...

..of serum bilirubin levels with nonrelapse mortality by day +200, testing the hypothesis that the duration of jaundice up to a given point in time provides more prognostic information than either the maximum bilirubin value or the ..

..Acetaminophen was falsely detected in the plasma of a severely jaundiced patient, and a methodologic interference from bilirubin was suspected...

..Two devices are available for making transcutaneous estimates of serum bilirubin (SBR): the Minolta AirShields JM102 and the new SpectRx BiliCheck...

Breast milk jaundice occurs in 1-2% of healthy breast-fed newborns and young infants. It develops as the result of liver immaturity and the inhibitory effect of mother's milk to the clearance of unconjugated bilirubin.

..had received preoperative internal biliary drainage were divided into three groups corresponding with severity of jaundice according to preoperative plasma bilirubin levels: < 40 microM (n = 177), 40 to 100 microM (n = 32), and > 100 ..

..The mechanism of bilirubin-induced neurotoxicity is not known. Many neurological insults are mediated through NMDA receptor activation...

..The biloma was percutaneously drained, but a biliary-venous fistula led to a rapidly progressive and fatal bilhemia. We report this case as an infrequent complication of transhepatic catheterization...

Painless jaundice is one of the most common presentations of pancreatic head cancer. Chronic pancreatitis can also occasionally present with a mass or mass-like process in the pancreatic head, with the subsequent development of jaundice...

..CONCLUSION: Our case recalls the clinical presentation of Fort Bragg fever, which is recognized through its inflammatory pretibial lesion associated or not with icterus...

AIM: To analyze the diagnostic and therapeutic features of extrahepatic bile duct carcinoma (EBDC) without jaundice. METHODS: Between 1985 and 1999, 101 patients underwent surgery for EBDC in Xiangya Hospital...

To investigate the essence of dampness and heat, the two main etiological factors of jaundice, to seek the objectified indices for syndrome typing of jaundice.

..This article reviews the clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, and management options of biliary tract complications in this complex patient population...

..b>Jaundice correlated best, with a sensitivity of 69%; and pancreatitis had the lowest sensitivity (12%)...

..Prednisolone is used routinely after portoenterostomy (PE) in patients with biliary atresia (BA). The authors reviewed their patients with BA post-PE to assess prednisolone protocols...

..The aim of the present study was to determine whether non-invasive measurement of skin colour combined with appropriate clinico-statistical methodology can be used to better quantify SB in the first days of life...

..METHODS: The DLIS levels were measured in 10 neonates with or without jaundice and 10 infants in good health, using fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) and microparticle enzyme ..

..is the commonest morbidity in the neonatal period and 5-10% of all newborns require intervention for pathological jaundice. Neonates on exclusive breast-feeding have a different pattern of physiological jaundice as compared to ..

..Mutant animals exhibited severe jaundice caused by abnormalities of the gallbladder and intrahepatic bile ducts (IHBD)...

..stent blockage is the major complication of endoscopic stenting for the palliation of malignant obstructive jaundice. Bacteria adhere to the stent surface with their pili and also through the production of glycocalyx to form a ..

b>Jaundice occurs in approximately 60% of newborns. When severe, the elevated blood levels of bilirubin (hyperbilirubinemia) associated with jaundice pose a significant risk for neurological damage...

..continue to be major complications of bilirubin toxicity despite advances in the treatment of hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice) in newborns...

..disease type C (NPC) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder: clinical features include neonatal jaundice seizures, delayed mental and motor development, and premature death...

..continue to be major complications of bilirubin toxicity despite advances in the treatment of hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice) in newborns...

Long-term objectives of this proposal are to fully elucidate the mechanism and effects of phototherapy of neonatal jaundice, to improve its effectiveness and safety, and to define the molecular mechanisms involved in the transport, ..

..are to elucidate the molecular mechanisms responsible for the therapeutic effects of phototherapy of neonatal jaundice; to improve the effectiveness and safety of phototherapy; and to define, at the molecular level, structural ..

b>Jaundice is the most common clinical diagnosis in the newborn, with 60% of neonates displaying significant unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia during the first 3 days of life...

Neonatal jaundice is a condition that effects children throughout the world...

..of ALL to 3 perinatal interventions: maternal O2 therapy, neonatal O2 therapy, and neonatal phototherapy for jaundice. For each of these exposures, a plausible biological rationale supports the hypothesis that they may contribute ..

Clinical jaundice is the most common medical diagnosis in the newborn; over 50 percent of neonates display significant unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia during the first 5 days of life...

Cholestasis (pathologic jaundice) is a very common sign of liver disease in children and adults, and results from genetic defects that play a critical role in bile formation and transport...

Neonatal jaundice occurs in 60-70% of all newborn infants. It is caused not only by an overproduction of bilirubin, but also by a transient failure to excrete this metabolite...

..The development of liver-directed gene therapies in the Gunn rat should greatly facilitate subsequent application of these methods to the treatment of Crigler-Najjar syndrome, Type I and other inherited metabolic diseases of the liver...

..Ultimately, these findings will reveal the magnitude of jaundice-related morbidity in premature infants, the usefulness of UB as a predictor of bilirubin-induced AN, and the role ..

..NPC) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder with a variety of clinical features including neonatal jaundice, seizures, delayed mental and motor development, and premature death...

Neonatal jaundice occurs in 60-70% of all newborn infants. It is due to hyperbilirubinemia caused not only by an overproduction of bilirubin, but also by a transient failure to excrete this metabolite...

Neonatal jaundice occurs in 60-70% of all newborn infants. It is due to hyperbilirubinemia caused not only by an overproduction of bilirubin, but also by a transient failure to excrete this metabolite...