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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease cholestasis
Symptom C0020433|hyperbilirubinemia
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PubMedID- 25504385 Laboratory tests showed cholestasis (100%) associated with hyperbilirubinemia (72%) and a moderate cytolysis (78%).
PubMedID- 25574367 Molecular analysis for primary hlh such as mutation of perforin and syntaxin gene was performed in one patient (8 month male child) only.11 a recent study on pediatric hlh patients (n=38; 20 primary hlh, 18 secondary hlh) reported that hyperbilirubinemia with cholestasis was highly suggestive of primary hlh; whereas high c-reactive protein levels was more in favor of a secondary hlh.
PubMedID- 26392257 Research has focused on the possibility that mild hyperbilirubinemia, instead of indicating inadvertent cholestasis, may be adaptive and beneficial.
PubMedID- 23134597 All of these alterations contribute to hyperbilirubinemia associated with an intrahepatic cholestasis, the severity of which likely depends on the intensity of the impaired steps in bile formation.

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