After years of near eradication, kernicterus, a neurologically devastating condition caused by neurotoxic levels of bilirubin in the first week of life, has reemerged as a significant problem in ...

Kernicterus is brain damage caused by severe, untreated jaundice or high blood levels of a substance called bilirubin. The condition is typically associated with severe, untreated cases of jaundice in ...

NAINR. 2004;4(4):201-210. The presenting signs of ABE are subtle and nonspecific. They need to be elicited by direct questioning of parents and close clinical observation of the hyperbilirubinemic ...