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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases > Metabolism, Inborn Errors > Hyperbilirubinemia, Hereditary > Crigler-Najjar Syndrome
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Genetic Diseases, Inborn > Metabolism, Inborn Errors > Hyperbilirubinemia, Hereditary > Crigler-Najjar Syndrome

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Crigler-Najjar Syndrome  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Crigler Najar Syndrome
  • Crigler-Najar Syndrome
  • Crigler Najjar Syndrome
  • Crigler Najjar Syndromes
  • Familial Nonhemolytic Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia
  • Hereditary Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia
  • Hereditary Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemias
  • Hyperbilirubinemia, Hereditary Unconjugated
  • Najjar Syndrome, Crigler
  • Syndrome, Crigler Najjar
  • Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia, Hereditary

Scope note

  • A familial form of congenital hyperbilirubinemia transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait. It is characterized by icterus and brain damage caused by a glucuronyl transferase deficiency in the liver and faulty bilirubin conjugation.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA, HEREDITARY 1975-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003414

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