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Clinical Significance of Recent Developments in Serum Bilirubins

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Normal serum contains unconjugated bilirubin and small concentrations of bilirubin glucuronides (approximately 4% of total bilirubins). A second conjugated form of bilirubin, tentatively identified as bilirubin-protein conjugates, with pharmacokinetic properties that are clearly distinct from those of bilirubin glucuronides, occurs in serum of patients in whom hepatic elimination of bilirubin glucuronides is, or recently has been, impaired.

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Blanckaert, N., Fevery, J., Vanstapel, F., Muraca, M. (1989). Clinical Significance of Recent Developments in Serum Bilirubins. In: Salvatore, F., Roda, A., Sacchetti, L. (eds) Clinical Biochemistry in Hepatobiliary Diseases. Progress in Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74394-8_7

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