Fatal Kernicterus in a Girl Deficient in Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase: A Paradigm of Synergistic Heterozygosity

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 616-619

  Zangen, Shmuel ^a   Kidron, Devorah ^b   Gelbart, Terri ^d   Roy Chowdhury, Namita ^e   Wang, Xia ^e   Kaplan, Michael ^c  

^a BARZILAI MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; PHENOBARBITAL;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONJUGATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GILBERT DISEASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFANCY; KERNICTERUS; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STAIN;

FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JEWS; KERNICTERUS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 62649100263     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.10.049     Document Type: Article

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