Readmission for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in an area with a high prevalence of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency: A hospital-based retrospective study.

Background: Hyperbilirubinemia is one of the most common causes of neonatal readmission to hospital.

Aims: To assess risk factors for hyperbilirubinemia among neonates readmitted for this condition and the ratio of the mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) to the mean corpuscular volume (MCV).

Methods: We retrospectively studied the clinical and laboratory findings, management and possible risk factors for hyperbilirubinemia in 301 neonates born at ≥35 weeks gestation and readmitted to hospital owing to hyperbilirubinemia over five years.

The syndrome dysmorphic facies, renal agenesis, ambiguous genitalia, microcephaly, polydactyly and lissencephaly (DREAM-PL): Report of two additional patients.

We have recently described a newly recognized syndromic form of congenital microcephaly as part of a large cohort of apparently novel dysmorphic syndromes. The reported Saudi Arabian patients have severe primary microcephaly, ambiguous male genitalia, dysmorphic facies, polydactyly, and renal agenesis. The same homozygous CTU2 mutation was identified in all patients.