Acute kernicterus remains a clinical emergency and its delayed management represents an easily preventable neonatal brain injury. Yet, practitioners encounter recurrent questions regarding the risk ...

Jaundice in term and near-term (35 to 37 week) infants is generally benign, however, concern has surfaced in recent years regarding reemergence of kernicterus in this patient population. An increasing ...

After years of near eradication, kernicterus, a neurologically devastating condition caused by neurotoxic levels of bilirubin in the first week of life, has reemerged as a significant problem in ...

Kernicterus, thought to be due to severe hyperbilirubinemia, is an uncommon disorder with tragic consequences, especially when it affects healthy term and near-term infants. Early identification, ...

Neonatal unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia and resultant clinical jaundice affect up to approximately 85% of newborns. Although this condition is generally a benign, transitional phenomenon, ...

Dilraj Singh has been left with cerebral palsy, is blind and cannot speak after developing a brain disease called Kernicterus A mother whose son was left brain damaged after midwives allegedly failed ...

Before Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) began using a one-dollar test to check bilirubin levels in all of the 225,000 babies delivered in it's hospitals nationwide, it averaged 1.2 cases a month ...

It is damage to the brain caused by the abnormal build up of one of the body's waste products, bilirubin. Bilirubin is produced by the breakdown of red blood cells, which occurs more rapidly in ...

Kernicterus is a form of brain damage that is caused by an excessive amount of jaundice in a newborn. It can cause both cerebral palsy and hearing loss, as well as problems with vision and learning ...