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bilirubin in feces
Indications:
- melena
Clinical significance:
- results from clearance of uncongugated bilirubin
Increases:
1) clinical disorders with increased uncongugated bilirubin
- hemolytic disorders
- Gilbert's syndrome
- Crigler-Najjar syndrome
- neonatal jaundice
- ineffective erythropoiesis
2) pharmaceutical agents
- drugs competing for glucuronide
Related
bilirubin
bilirubin unconjugated in serum (indirect bilirubin)
General
urine chemistry test
References
- Clinical Guide to Laboratory Tests, 4th edition, HB Wu ed,
WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 2006