TY - JOUR
T1 - Italian guidelines for the management and treatment of neonatal cholestasis
AU - Dani, Carlo
AU - Pratesi, Simone
AU - Raimondi, Francesco
AU - Romagnoli, Costantino
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Hyperbilirubinemia is a frequent condition affecting newborns during the first two weeks of life and when it lasts more than 14 days it is defined as prolonged jaundice. This condition requires differential diagnosis between the usually benign unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia and the pathological conjugated hyperbilirubinemia, that is mainly due to neonatal cholestasis. It is important that the diagnosis of neonatal cholestasis be well-timed to optimize its management, prevent worsening of the patient's outcome, and to avoid premature, painful, expensive, and useless tests. Unfortunately, this does not always occur and, therefore, the Task Force on Hyperbilirubinemia of the Italian Society of Neonatology presents these shared Italian guidelines for the management and treatment of neonatal cholestasis whose overall aim is to provide a useful tool for its assessment for neonatologists and family pediatricians.
AB - Hyperbilirubinemia is a frequent condition affecting newborns during the first two weeks of life and when it lasts more than 14 days it is defined as prolonged jaundice. This condition requires differential diagnosis between the usually benign unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia and the pathological conjugated hyperbilirubinemia, that is mainly due to neonatal cholestasis. It is important that the diagnosis of neonatal cholestasis be well-timed to optimize its management, prevent worsening of the patient's outcome, and to avoid premature, painful, expensive, and useless tests. Unfortunately, this does not always occur and, therefore, the Task Force on Hyperbilirubinemia of the Italian Society of Neonatology presents these shared Italian guidelines for the management and treatment of neonatal cholestasis whose overall aim is to provide a useful tool for its assessment for neonatologists and family pediatricians.
KW - neonatal cholestasis
KW - neonatal cholestasis
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/71564
U2 - 10.1186/s13052-015-0178-7
DO - 10.1186/s13052-015-0178-7
M3 - Article
SN - 1720-8424
SP - 69
EP - 69
JO - THE ITALIAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
JF - THE ITALIAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
ER -