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Bilirubin Encephalopathy

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Biology of Brain Dysfunction

Abstract

So-called physiological jaundice is a mild, transient increase in concentration of serum bilirubin of the unconjugated variety seen during the first few days of life of the newborn infant. It occurs regularly and has been recognized for many years. In fact, the first mention of jaundice occurring in the newborn may go back as far as 1473. The very early history of jaundice in the newborn has been reviewed in a number of works, to which the interested reader is referred.(1–4)

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