Postoperative Hyperbilirubinemia and Gilbert's Syndrome in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

We report a series of seven patients with Gilbert's syndrome undergoing cardiac surgery. Early and transient increase of total, direct, and indirect bilirubin without other complications was observed. Although this is a benign process, we believe that this disease should be routinely included i...

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Autores principales: Fernández, Angel L, Baluja, Aurora, Al-Hamwy, Zaid, Alvarez, Julian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6489403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30971605
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_48_18
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description We report a series of seven patients with Gilbert's syndrome undergoing cardiac surgery. Early and transient increase of total, direct, and indirect bilirubin without other complications was observed. Although this is a benign process, we believe that this disease should be routinely included in the differential diagnosis of postoperative jaundice after cardiopulmonary bypass.
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spelling pubmed-64894032019-05-03 Postoperative Hyperbilirubinemia and Gilbert's Syndrome in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery Fernández, Angel L Baluja, Aurora Al-Hamwy, Zaid Alvarez, Julian Ann Card Anaesth Case Report We report a series of seven patients with Gilbert's syndrome undergoing cardiac surgery. Early and transient increase of total, direct, and indirect bilirubin without other complications was observed. Although this is a benign process, we believe that this disease should be routinely included in the differential diagnosis of postoperative jaundice after cardiopulmonary bypass. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6489403/ /pubmed/30971605 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_48_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Postoperative Hyperbilirubinemia and Gilbert's Syndrome in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
title_full Postoperative Hyperbilirubinemia and Gilbert's Syndrome in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
title_fullStr Postoperative Hyperbilirubinemia and Gilbert's Syndrome in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
title_full_unstemmed Postoperative Hyperbilirubinemia and Gilbert's Syndrome in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
title_short Postoperative Hyperbilirubinemia and Gilbert's Syndrome in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
title_sort postoperative hyperbilirubinemia and gilbert's syndrome in patients undergoing cardiac surgery
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6489403/
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