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Kernicterus

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A term used pathologically to describe BILIRUBIN staining of the BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN STEM; and CEREBELLUM and clinically to describe a syndrome associated with HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA. Clinical features include athetosis, MUSCLE SPASTICITY or hypotonia, impaired vertical gaze, and DEAFNESS. Nonconjugated bilirubin enters the brain and acts as a neurotoxin, often in association with conditions that impair the BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER (e.g., SEPSIS). This condition occurs primarily in neonates ( INFANT, NEWBORN), but may rarely occur in adults.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.1879, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1879
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 4 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: hyperkinesis; haemolysis; icterus gravis neonatorum; and Kern icterus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.7318, 1948-1949

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.7318
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 1 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: brain damage; mental retardation; and kernicterus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1948-1949
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 2)

PR2.9705, 1951-1954

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.9705
Scope and Contents

Typed correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 2 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: microcephaly; Kernicterus; cyanosis intellectually defective; seizures; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951-1954
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 2)

PR2.19180, 1958

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.19180
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: Kernicterus; cerebral damage; epileptic fit; and intellectual disability. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1958
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 4)