Professional paper
Epidemiological characteristics of newborns and premature infants hospitalized in Pula General Hospital due to neonatal jaundice (2016 - 2018)
Kristina Mržljak
; Pula General Hospital, Pula, Croatia
Mladen Jašić
; Special hospital for orthopedics and rehabilitation "Martin Horvat" Rovinj - Rovigno, Rovinj, Croatia
Abstract
Neonatal jaundice is the clinical manifestation of hiperbilirubinemia which affects 50% of term and
80% of preterm neonates. Jaundice can be physiologic and pathologic. The aim of this study was to
present the clinicopathologic features of 208 neonates (term and preterm) diagnosed with newborn
jaundice and hospitalized at the Department od Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, General hospital
Pula, from January 1st 2016 to December 31st 2018. Statistical analysis showed that newborn jaundice
was more common in male newborns (61%), it was unconjugated in all cases, and the most common
comorbidities were insufficient food intake, excessive weight loss and prematurity. Fototherapy and
fototherapy combined with i.v. infusion successfully treated newborn jaundice in our patients. The
median lenght of hospital stay was 4,7±5,5 days and the cost of the stay was 720,7±578,8 euros.
Keywords
newborn jaundice; phototerapy; unconjugated hiperbilirubinemia
Hrčak ID:
318262
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2024.
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