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How do you manage significant asymptomatic indirect hyperbilirubinemia in patients with hemolytic diseases (SCD, HS, etc.)?

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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology · FibroFighters Foundation

Hello,

Indirect bilirubin is from hemolysis, not cholestasis (a few exceptions from rare syndromes), so not associated with stones, and would not expect ursodiol to help. It's a marker of how bad the sickling is - along with LDH, reticulocyte count, and MCHC (which measures cell density, i.e., irrev...

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