%0 Journal Article
%T Successful Pregnancy Outcome In Maternal Crigler Najjar Syndrome Type II
%A Shakuntala PN
%A Poornima M
%A Padmalatha VV
%A Shubha R Rao
%J Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences
%D 2012
%I Editor: B. S. Kakkilaya
%X Estimated incidence of Crigler-Najjar syndrome(CNS) is 1 case per 1,000,000 births(1 million). The overall prevalence of CN syndrome is unknown, with only several hundred people reported to have this disease. It is interestingly very rare to encounter a pregnant adult women with congenital jaundice. Pregnancy in CN type II patients is a diagnostic and a therapeutic challenge because of the high risk of bilirubin encephalopathy with serious neurological damage as life-threatening complications for the fetus. To date 8 pregnancy outcome have been reported from 5 women and we report the6 woman with a successful 9 th pregnancy outcome. We have discussed detail history, presentation and management during pregnancy and care of the new born.
%K Crigler Najjer Syndrome type II
%K Unconjugated hyperbilurubinemia
%K Phenobarbitone
%K Phototherapy.
%U http://www.ojhas.org/issue43/2012-3-12.htm