Causes of Jaundice

 Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia:

  ● Haemolysis: ABO incompatibility, drugs, infection, G6PD deficiency.

  ● Bilirubin overproduction: Ineffective erythropoiesis, large hematoma

  ● Enzyme defects: Gilbert syndrome, Crigler-Najjar syndrome

  ● Hypothyroidism

  ● Specific conditions in neonates: Physiologic jaundice, breast milk jaundice


Conjugated hyperbilirubinemia:

  ● Neonatal cholestasis

  ● Infections

  ● CLD

  ● Liver tumour

  ● Malignancy

  ● Enzyme defects: Dubin-Johnson syndrome, Rotor syndrome

  ● Biliary: Choledochal cyst, choledocolithiasis, sclerosing cholangitis

  ● Drug toxicity, TPN, veno-occlusive disease

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