Liver Diseases And Disorders |
Alagille Syndrome; Arteriohepatic Dysplasia; Bile ducts paucity, syndromic form; Jaundice; Liver; Liver Diseases; Liver Diseases (General) |
Jaundice, also known as icterus (attributive adjective: "icteric"), is a yellowing of the skin, sclera (the white of the eyes) and mucous membranes caused by increased levels of bilirubin in the human body (or the body of another red blooded animal). Usually the concentration of bilirubin in the blood must exceed 2–3 mg/dL for the coloration to be easily visible. Jaundice comes from the French word jaune, meaning yellow. Causes of jaundice When red blood cells die, the heme in their h ...
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Liver Diseases And Disorders Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Nemours Foundation http://www.Nemours.org
- American Association for Clinical Chemistry
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- National Center for Health Statistics
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Food and Drug Administration
- Children's Hospital Boston
- American College of Physicians http://www.acponline.org/
- American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/
- American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America
- University of Utah, Health Sciences Center
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://www.niddk.nih.gov/
- National Library of Medicine
- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences http://www.niehs.nih.gov/
- Society of Interventional Radiology http://www.sirweb.org/
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine http://nccam.nih.gov/
- American Liver Foundation http://www.liverfoundation.org/
- National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
- National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
- Children's Liver Association for Support Services
- National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS http://www.4woman.gov/
- National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse, NIDDK, NIH, HHS http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm
- National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC, OPHS, HHS http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/index.htm
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Publication Distribution Center
- National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- Genetics Home Reference http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
- HealthWorld http://www.healthy.net/

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