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Nov 2, 2022 · November 2, 2022. By Claire McCarthy, MD, Senior Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publishing. A common condition in newborns occasionally signals a serious health problem. Most newborn babies turn at least a little bit yellow. Known as jaundice, this condition is a very common and usually normal part of the newborn period.
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Aug 24, 2021 · Even in our entire cohort of hospitalized patients with approximately 90% meeting criteria for SIRS, fewer than 9% were jaundiced. Our data show that jaundice in patients with COVID‐19 is associated with fever, leukopenia, leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, hypotension, and hypoxemia.
- Joshua M Bender, Howard J Worman
- 10.1002/jgh3.12645
- 2021
- JGH Open. 2021 Oct; 5(10): 1166-1171.
Feb 28, 2020 · Therefore, we developed an online follow-up program for convenient monitoring of bilirubin level of newborns that is based on our practical experiences. The aim is to make our management strategies of neonatal jaundice tailored to the infection prevention and control during the COVID-19 epidemic.
- Xiao Lu Ma, Zheng Chen, Jia Jun Zhu, Xiao Xia Shen, Ming Yuan Wu, Li Ping Shi, Li Zhong Du, Jun Fen ...
- 2020
Mar 1, 2021 · P-value <0.05 was considered significant Results: A total of 47,979,909 neonatal hospitalizations were identified from 2006-2017, of which 20.2% had jaundice, and 325 had kernicterus (0.7 per 100,000 live births).
Aug 24, 2021 · Results: Hepatic jaundice was present in 49 (8.9%) patients and associated with a mortality rate of 40.8% and intensive care unit admission rate of 69.4%, both significantly higher than for patients without jaundice.
Nov 1, 2017 · Jaundice is a common clinical sign in newborns, especially during the first 2 weeks after birth. The first description of neonatal jaundice and bilirubin staining of the newborn brain goes back to the eighteenth century. The finding of jaundice on physical examination is an indicator of hyperbilirubinemia.
Apr 30, 2024 · From 2020 to the end of March 2024, children up to age 17 accounted for about 1.5% of people who needed to be treated for COVID-19 in the hospital. But some children with COVID-19 need to be hospitalized, treated in the intensive care unit or placed on a machine to help them breathe, called a ventilator.
