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Types of jaundice |
- prehepatic jaundice
- hepatocellular jaundice - obstructive (cholestatic) jaundice |
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Causes of prehepatic jaundice |
- haemolysis - congenital hyperbilirubinaemia: Gilbert's syndrome |
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Causes of hepatocellular jaundice |
Parenchymal liver disease, elevated transaminases - hepatitis: viral, autoimmune - cirrhosis - drugs: paracetamol toxicity, erythromycin, phenytoin, flucloxacillin, co-amoxiclav, COCP, some antipsychotics |
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Extrahepatic causes of obstructive jaundice |
- choledochplithiasis
- carcinoma of the pancreas (CA19-9, ampulla (faecal occult blood), bile duct (cholangiocarcinoma) - chronic pancreatitis - strictures of the bile duct - parasitic infection |
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Intrahepatic causes of obstructive jaundice |
- PBC - PSC - alcohol - drugs - liver mets: hepatomegaly or irregular hepatic masses - CF - pregnancy - Mirrezi syndrome: impaction of a gallstone in the neck of gallbladder |
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Clinical features of obstructive jaundice |
- pale stools - dark urine: urine bilirubin - pruritis: usually associated with malignancy |
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