Congenital hyperbilirubinemia

Bird, A.R., Knottenbelt, E., Jacobs, P., Maigrot, J. Primary shunt hyperbilirubinemia a variant of the congenital dyserythropoietic anaemias. Postgrad. Med. X 1991 67 396-398... 

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The most severe porphyrias with cutaneous symptomatology are the two autosomal recessive forms, congenital erythropoietic porphyria (31.3) and hepatoerythropoietic porphyria (31.8). Both disorders show a great variability of disease course, that varies from intrauterine hydrops fetalis with severe hemolytic anemia, over neonatal onset with red urine, prolonged hyperbilirubinemia and acute severe skin lesions induced by phototherapy, up to the relatively benign forms with late onset not before adult life. The... 

In neonates suspected to have any congenital form of porphyria (red urine with pink fluorescence under long UV light) avoid phototherapy for hyperbilirubinemia ... 

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