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Monday, May 03, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
| Session Number: 3300A |
| 27th Annual Audrey K. Brown Kernicterus Symposium |
| PAS Club |
| Vancouver Convention Centre ~ West Ballroom C |
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| Objective:
- Understand the limits of visual inspection for jaundice and understand how
bilirubin can injure neurons and glial cells in the brain |
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| Chairs: David K. Stevenson, Stanford University School of Medicine,
Stanford, CA, William J. Cashore, Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode
Island, Providence, RI and Vinod K. Bhutani, Stanford University School of
Medicine, Stanford, CA |
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| The session will provide an update on a proposed mechanism of bilirubin toxicity
as well as address the very practical issue of visual assessment of jaundice in
newborns as a way of targeting babies for diagnostic studies and treatment.
Contact for information:
David K. Stevenson
Stanford University School of Medicine
Phone: 650-723-5711
Email: dstevenson@stanford.edu |
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Vinod K. Bhutani
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA |
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William J. Cashore
Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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David K. Stevenson
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA |
| 12:00 PM - |
What Is the Role of Visual Assessment in the Evaluation of Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia?
Ron Keren
Children[apos]s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA |
| 12:30 PM - |
New Frontiers in Bilirubin Injury to Neurons and Glial Cells
Dora Brites
Faculdade de Farm[aacute]cia de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal |
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