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Disease kernicterus
Phenotype C0007789|cerebral palsy
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PubMedID- 25560920 cerebral palsy consistent with kernicterus occurred in 3 infants (incidence, 0.57 per 100,000 births); all 3 had tsb levels of more than 5.0 mg/dl above the ett and at least 2 risk factors for neurotoxicity, such as prematurity, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, or hypoxia-ischemia.
PubMedID- 26396699 Pathologic levels of bilirubin may lead to irreversible complications such as bilirubin encephalopathy called kernicterus associated with cerebral palsy, deafness, dental dysplasia, ophthalmoplasia with upward gaze, and personality disorders (3, 4).

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