Riboflavin in the treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
Yurdakök, M.; Erdem, G.; Tekinalp, G.
Turkish Journal of Pediatrics 30(3): 159-161
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-4301 PMID: 3242190 Document Number: 142
This study, regarding the effect of riboflavin in the treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia was carried out on 124 full-term healthy newborns with indirect hyperbilirubinemia who required phototherapy. No evidence of hemolytic disease and/or other associated disease were observed in these babies. Within half an hour of the initiation of phototherapy, 50 neonates received riboflavin in a single oral dose of 3 mg/kg body weight. At the end of the study, it was determined that the total duration of phototherapy and the serum indirect bilirubin falling-velocity were similar in both groups (p > 0.05).
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