Understanding Hyperemesis

• Complications
  • Renal Failure
  • Atrophy
  • Central Pontine Myelinolysis
  • Coagulopathy
  • Deconditioning
  • Gastrointestinal
  • Esophageal
  • Retinitis
  • Hypoglycemia
  • Jaundice
  • Malnutrition
  • Neurological
  • Pneumomediastinum
  • PPD
  • PTSD
  • Rhabdomyolysis
  • Depression
  • Spleen
  • Vasospasms
  • Fetal

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Jaundice

Yellow discoloring of the skin, mucous membranes, and eyes, caused by too much bilirubin in the blood; indicates overload or damage to the liver, or inability to move bilirubin from the liver through the biliary tract to the gut.

Classic Signs: Yellow skin, mucous membranes, and eyes; itching.

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Offsite Research: Jaundice induced by hyperemesis gravidarum. Orazi G, Dufour PH, Puech F. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hopital Jeanne de Flandre, Lille, France. International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics: the Official Organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (Ireland), May 1998, 61(2) p181-3.

 

Updated on: Aug. 09, 2006