Title | Neonatal Jaundice [electronic resource] : New Trends in Phototherapy / edited by Firmino F. Rubaltelli, Giulio Jori |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1984 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7517-3 |
Descript | XI, 321 p. online resource |
Bilirubin Metabolism -- Bilirubin metabolism in the newborn: its mechanisms and relationship to kernicterus -- Serum bilirubin mono- and diconjugates in human newborns -- Mechanism of bilirubin entry into the brain in an animal model -- The importance of serum binding and the blood-brain barrier in the development of acute bilirubin neurotoxicity -- Distribution of bilirubin between serum and cerebrospinal fluid in newborn infants -- Assessment of the Risk of Bilirubin Toxicity -- The chemical nature of fetal albumin -- Estimation of reserve albumin equivalent concentration for binding of bilirubin -- Postnatal changes in the ability of plasma albumin to bind bilirubin -- Interactions of bilirubin and drugs -- Estimation and clinical significance of bilirubin binding status -- Factors affecting the transcutaneous measurement of bilirubin: influence of race, gestational age, phototherapy and albumin binding capacity -- Chemistry and Photochemistry of Bilirubin -- Recent advances in the chemistry of bile pigments -- Solution conformations, photophysics and photochemistry of Bilirubin and biliverdin dimethyl esters -- Photophysical properties of bile pigments -- In vitro and in vivo bilirubin-sensitized photoeffects at the molecular and cellular levels -- Photooxygenation products of bilirubin in the urine of jaundiced phototherapy neonates -- Phototherapy of Neonatal Jaundice -- Molecular mechanisms of phototherapy of neonatal jaundice -- Mechanisms of action of phototherapy: new concepts -- Laser-oriented search of the optimum light for phototherapy -- A mathematical description of the phototherapy-effect: an investigation of the dose-response relationship under high irradiances -- The Gunn rat: a model for phototherapy -- Light dose-response relationship in phototherapy -- Prediction of the effect of phototherapy in newborns -- Reducing the duration of phototherapy for neonatal jaundice by cholestyramine administration -- Bronze baby syndrome: new insights on bilirubin-photosensitization of copper-porphyrins -- Effect of light and various concentrations of oxygen on the retina of the newborn pig -- Effect of phototherapy on hepatic microsomal drug metabolism in heterozygous and homozygous Gunn rats -- Long term outcome of phototherapy; selected aspects of the NICHHD cooperative phototherapy study