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Neonatal jaundice in Mosul | ||
| Medical Journal of Tikrit | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 141, 2012, Pages 192-195 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Hazem A. Mohammed; Akram J. Ahmed; Sura K. Mohi aldeen | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The current study includes 102 neonates with neonatal jaundice (NNJ) who were referred to the laboratory of Department of Biochemistry-Mosul College of Medicine, during a period of one month from 1st of July to 1st of August 2005, All neonates were full- term and presented with jaundice in the first week of life. Measurement of serum bilirubin (SB) concentrations by colorimetric method was done to know the most common type of jaundice that affects the neonates during the first week of life in Mosul city. One hundred two neonates were diagnosed as NNJ, 96 (94,12%) were physiological jaundice (PJ), while 5(4.9 %) were of pathological jaundice. Breast milk jaundice (BMJ) was only the cause of jaundice in one neonate (0.98%). PJ was the most common type of NNJ in Mosul. Moreover, pathological and BMJ were rarely responsible for NNJ | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Neonatal jaundice in Mosul | ||
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