title: Auditory brainstem response detects early bilirubin neurotoxicity at low indirect bilirubin values.
abstract: When sedation, prematurity or other disease processes mask symptoms in the clinically ill newborn, serum bilirubin concentration is monitored as the sole indicator of kernicterus risk. This case emphasizes the value of auditory brainstem responses for the management of indirect hyperbilirubinemia complicated by prematurity, hemolytic anemia, asphyxia, and direct hyperbilirubinemia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Norfolk, VA 23507, USA.
authors.forename: Camille M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Galen P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Barnes
authors.forename: Claire A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Jacobson
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Oelberg
mesh_terms: D001663:Bilirubin / Q000097:blood; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D006801:Humans; D006932:Hyperbilirubinemia / Q000150:complications*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007647:Kernicterus / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D001663:Bilirubin