Unconjugated UWorld Answers
This form of Crigler-Najjar is considered to be the most serious.
What is Cringler-Najjar Type I?
This is the first line imaging that should be done for any patient with suspected direct hyperbilirubinemia.
What is RUQ ultrasound?
This describes the pattern of calcifications found in CMV, a potential infectious cause of jaundice in a neonate.
What is periventricular?
This common cause of jaundice typically only appears in the first week after birth, and can be treated by increasing the frequency of feedings.
What is breastfeeding jaundice?
This metabolic defect, which can cause both direct OR indirect hyperbilirubinemia, as well as characteristically cataracts in a young patient, is missing this enzyme.
What is GALT?
These potential sources of oxidative stress are best boiled and served slightly salted.
What are fava beans?
While often incorrectly identified as a cephalohematoma, this swelling can be distinguished both by its ability to cross suture lines, and its inability to cause jaundice.
What is caput succedaneum?
This cause of conjugated hyperbilirubinemia would classically show a grossly black liver.
What is Dubin-Johnson syndrome?
Neonates with a varicella infection, a potential cause of jaundice, are likely to get this protein as part of their treatment.
What is VarIG?
This medication is given whenever there is concern for a Rh incompatibility, even in the first pregnancy.
What is RhoGAM?
This procedure is used to treat a cause hyperbilirubinemia characterized by degraded or missing biliary ducts.
What is the Kasai procedure?
This is how you would describe the cry of a patient with severe untreated hyperbilirubinemia.
What is high-pitched?
This diagnostic test is used to definitively diagnose a cause of unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia which characteristically has a high MCHC.
What is an EMA binding test? (Also accept osmotic fragility test).
This is how you spell the FULL NAME of the enzyme that conjugates bilirubin. (Points go to the team that gets closest.)
What is uridine diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1?
If patient 1's maternal uncle has a G6PD deficiency, but no one else in the family, this is the chance that patient 1, a boy, will have G6PD deficiency as well.