%A PN Shakuntala
%A M Poornima
%A VV Padmalatha
%A SR Rao
%J Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences
%T Successful Pregnancy Outcome In Maternal Crigler Najjar Syndrome Type II.
%X Estimated incidence of Crigler-Najjar syndrome(CNS) is 1 case per 1,000,000 births(1 million). The overall prevalence of CN syndrome is unknown, with only several hundred people reported to have this disease. It is interestingly very rare to encounter a pregnant adult women with congenital jaundice. Pregnancy in CN type II patients is a diagnostic and a therapeutic challenge because of the high risk of bilirubin encephalopathy with serious neurological damage as life-threatening complications for the fetus. To date 8 pregnancy outcome have been reported from 5 women and we report the6 woman with a successful 9 th pregnancy outcome. We have discussed detail history, presentation and management during pregnancy and care of the new born.
%N 3(12)
%K Crigler Najjer Syndrome type II; Unconjugated hyperbilurubinemia; Phenobarbitone; Phototherapy.
%E Dr Srinivas Kakkilaya
%V 11
%D 2012
%I Kakkilaya BS
%L cogprints8922

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