Relationship between transcutaneous bilirubin and circulating unbound bilirubin in jaundiced neonates

2016 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 235-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuelle Letamendia-Richard ◽  
Rafik Ben Ammar ◽  
Ascanio Tridente ◽  
Daniele De Luca
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
M.A. ELBISHRY ◽  
A.E. Elsadek ◽  
E.G. Behiry ◽  
M.A. Hasan

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 369-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pareshkumar Thakkar ◽  
Hardas Chavda ◽  
Vikas Doshi

Author(s):  
Shinya Abe ◽  
Kazumichi Fujioka ◽  
Ruka Nakasone ◽  
Shutaro Suga ◽  
Mariko Ashina ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andra Kurnianto ◽  
Herman Bermawi ◽  
Afifa Darmawanti ◽  
Erial Bahar

Background The gold standard for diagnosis of neonatal jaundice is total serum bilirubin (TSB) measurement. This method, however, is invasive, painful, and costly in terms of workload, time, and money. Moreover, repeated blood sampling may lead to significant blood loss, which is of particular concern in preterm infants. To overcome these drawbacks, non-invasive methods of bilirubin measurement have been proposed. Transcutaneous bilirubinometry (TcB) determines the yellowness of the subcutaneous tissue of a newborn infant by measuring the difference between optical densities for light in the blue and green wavelength regions.Objective To evaluate the accuracy of transcutaneous bilirubinometry for estimating TSB levels in neonatal jaundice.Methods Subjects were infants aged < 28 days with jaundice who had never been treated with phototherapy or exchange transfusion. The study was done from February to July 2016 in Mohammad Hoesin Hospital. Subjects underwent transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) and TSB assays, with a maximum interval of 15 minutes between tests.Results One hundred fifty patients were included in this study. The TcB values > 5 mg/dL were correlated to TSB > 5 mg/dL, with 100% sensitivity and 83.3% specificity. This cut-off point was obtained from a receiver-operator characteristic (ROC) curve with AUC 99.3% (95%CI 97.9 to 100%; P< 0.001).The correlation coefficients (r) for TSB and TcB measurements on the forehead were 0.897 (P<0.001).Conclusion Transcutaneous bilirubinometry can be used to accurately estimate TSB levels in neonatal jaundice, and may be useful in clinical practice as a non-invasive method to reduce blood sampling.


Author(s):  
Thomas Hegyi ◽  
Dalya Chefitz ◽  
Alan Weller ◽  
Andrew Huber ◽  
Mary Carayannopoulos ◽  
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Author(s):  
Silvia Maya-Enero ◽  
Júlia Candel-Pau ◽  
Jordi Garcia-Garcia ◽  
Xavier Duran-Jordà ◽  
María Ángeles López-Vílchez

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 858-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Casnocha Lucanova ◽  
K Matasova ◽  
M Zibolen ◽  
P Krcho

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