Serum bilirubin and bilirubin/albumin ratio as predictors of bilirubin encephalopathy

Pediatrics

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2014, Pages e1330-e1339

  Iskander, Iman F ^a   Gamaleldin, Rasha ^a   El Houchi, Salma ^a   El Shenawy, Amira ^b   Seoud, Iman ^a   El Gharbawi, Nesrin ^b   Abou Youssef, Hazem ^b   Aravkin, Aleksandr ^c   Wennberg, Richard P ^d  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory impairment; Automated auditory brainstem response; Bilirubin induced neurologic dysfunction; Bilirubin albumin ratio; Bind score; Hyperbilirubinemia; Kernicterus

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BILIRUBIN ALBUMIN RATIO; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING DISORDER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; KERNICTERUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; JAUNDICE, NEONATAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BILIRUBIN; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAUNDICE, NEONATAL; KERNICTERUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 84908888879     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2013-1764     Document Type: Article

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