How do you manage significant asymptomatic indirect hyperbilirubinemia in patients with hemolytic diseases (SCD, HS, etc.)?
Do you consider starting Ursodiol? Do you perform routine abdominal ultrasound to monitor for cholelithiasis?
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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology · FibroFighters Foundation
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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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