Jaundice-associated conditions
Definition
Jaundice-associated conditions are diseases or conditions that cause yellow skin (jaundice).
Alternative Names
Conditions associated with jaundiceCauses
Jaundice is a symptom of liver and gallbladder disorders. The skin and the eyes become yellow due to the buildup of bilirubin in the skin.
Jaundice-associated conditions include:
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Biliary atresia
- Blockage of the bile ducts (by infection, tumor, biliary stricture or gallstones)
- Cirrhosis
- Congenital disorders of bilirubin metabolism
- Drug-induced cholestasis (bile pools in the liver because of the effects of drugs)
- Drug-induced hepatitis
- Dubin-Johnson syndrome
- Gilbert disease
- Hemolytic anemia
- Ischemic hepatitis (jaundice caused by reduced oxygen or blood flow to the liver)
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (bile pools in the liver)
- Malaria
- Newborn jaundice
- Pancreatic carcinoma
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Viral hepatitis (hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hepatitis D, and hepatitis E)
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