A study of neonatal jaundice in Kelantan, Malaysia

Abstract

A review of 10,021 neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit at Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia during January 1989 to December 1992 were studied to determine the incidence of jaundice, the morbidity and mortality pattern. The commonest cause of neonatal jaundice was physiological (89.1%). The least common was Rhesus incompatibility (0.03%). The commonest cause of mortality was gram negative sepsis in premature babies (3.1%). ABO incompatibility was the commonest cause in neonates with hyperbilirubinemia more than 400 umol/L.