Neonatal jaundice classification
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ahmed Elsaiey, MBBCH [2]
Overview
Neonatal jaundice can be classified based on the etiology of the jaundice into pathological jaundice, physiological jaundice, breastfeeding jaundice, and hemolytic jaundice.
Classification
- Neonatal jaundice can be classified based on the etiology of jaundice into:[1]
- Pathological jaundice: It can be classified based on the type of the hyperbilirubinemia into two subtypes:
- Conjugated hyperbilirubinemia
- Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
- Physiological jaundice
- Breastfeeding jaundice
- Hemolytic jaundice
- Pathological jaundice: It can be classified based on the type of the hyperbilirubinemia into two subtypes:
| Neonatal jaundice | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unconjugated bilirubin | Conjugated bilirubin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pathologic | Physiologic | Hepatic | Post-hepatic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hemolytic | Non-hemolytic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Intrinsic causes | Extrinsic causes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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