TY - JOUR
TI - The size of the langerhans’ islets in infants with severe jaundice of varying etiology
AU - Nicolopoulos, D.
AU - Hadjigeorgiou, E.
AU - Kaslaris, E.
AU - Moschos, A.
JO - Neonatologie Scan
PY - 1973
VL - 22
TODO - 5-6
SP - 348-354
PB - 
SN - null
TODO - 10.1159/000240567
TODO - bilirubin;  glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase, blood group ABO incompatibility;  developmental biology;  endocrinology;  hemolysis;  histology;  hypoglycemia;  jaundice;  methodology;  newborn;  newborn jaundice;  normal human;  pancreas islet;  pancreas islet beta cell;  rhesus incompatibility;  rhesus isoimmunization;  theoretical study, ABO Blood-Group System;  Bilirubin;  Birth Weight;  Blood Group Incompatibility;  Female;  Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency;  Hemolysis;  Human;  Hyperplasia;  Infant, Newborn;  Islets of Langerhans;  Jaundice, Neonatal;  Male;  Pregnancy;  Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic;  Rh-Hr Blood-Group System
TODO - The histological specimens of the pancreas of 33 newborn jaundiced infants were examined and compared to 35 controls. In 4 babies the jaundice was due to Rhesus incompatibility, in 8 to ABO incompatibility, in 13 to G-6-PD deficiency and in 8 the etiology of jaundice could not be ascertained. The Langerhans’ islets were found to be hyperplastic not only in the 4 infants, whose severe jaundice was due to Rhesus incompatibility, but, to a lesser degree, in the majority of the other jaundiced infants’ pancreas as well. The surface of the Langer-hans’ islets was well correlated with the highest bilirubin level in all groups of jaundiced infants. © 1973 S. Karger AG, Basel.
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