Serum bile acids in the newborn: our experience
Pifferí, M.; Michelotti, F.; Domenici, R.; Fiorini, V.; Michelotti, F.; Ceccarelli, M.
La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica Medical and Surgical Pediatrics 12(3): 251-254
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-5387 PMID: 2274436 Document Number: 362249
The study of bile acids in the newborn permits to the AA. to point out that the beginning of the feeding does not influence the "physiologic cholestasis" of the first days of life. Neonatal cholestasis is the expression of the immaturity of bile acids synthesis and hepatic and intestinal carriage, which is not correlated with the maternal conditions. Furthermore, the AA. discuss about the analogy between cholestasis and "physiologic hyperbilirubinemia", from which it differs for the longer time. In fact, the maturation of the enterohepatic circle occurs very slowly under possible dietetic factors influences.