Persistent jaundice in an infant with homozygous beta thalassemia due to co-inherited Crigler-Najjar syndrome

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 627-628

  Aggarwal, Varun ^a   Seth, Anju ^a   Sharma, Sunita ^a   Aneja, Satinder ^a   Sammarco, Pietro ^b   Fabiano, Carmelo ^b  

^a LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b VILLA SOFIA CERVELLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crigler Najjar; Hemoglobin disorders; Jaundice; Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 1A1; GLYCINE; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A2; HEMOGLOBIN F; PHENOBARBITAL; SERINE;

ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN METABOLISM; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CRIGLER NAJJAR SYNDROME; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HEPATOMEGALY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; JAUNDICE; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PALLOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN DISEASE; THALASSEMIA MAJOR;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; CRIGLER-NAJJAR SYNDROME; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATAL OUTCOME; GABA MODULATORS; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAUNDICE; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOBARBITAL;

EID: 77649166932     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.22313     Document Type: Article

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