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Benzyl alcohol, kernicterus, and unbound bilirubin
1California Pacific Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, San Francisco 94118, USA.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|August 7, 2001
Abstract:
A prospective study in 1983 demonstrated no significant relationship between serum unbound bilirubin levels and kernicterus. The presence of benzoate (a bilirubin-binding competitor) in the serum along with sample dilution, however, may have rendered the unbound bilirubin measurements in that study inaccurate.