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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2011

A full-term baby (the 1st uncomplicated pregnancy, difficult labour) had a cephalogematoma. On the 2nd day there was jaundice, on the third the following changes in neurological status appeared: nystagmus, Graefe syndrome. Urine was yellow, feces were of golden-yellow colour. Mother's blood group is A (II) Rh_, the baby's one - A (II) Rh . On the third day the child's Hb was 200g/l, RBCs - 6,1 × 1012/l, blood bilirubin - 58 micromole/l at the expense of unbound fraction. What caused the jaundice in the child?

Answer options

  1. Physiological jaundice
  2. Fetal hepatitis
  3. Craniocerebral birth trauma
  4. Neonatal anaemia
  5. Biliary atresia
Correct answer

Craniocerebral birth trauma

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