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A familial form of congenital hyperbilirubinemia transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait. It is characterized by icterus and brain damage caused by a glucuronyl transferase deficiency in the liver and faulty bilirubin conjugation.
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- Crigler Najjar Syndrome
- Crigler-Najar Syndrome
- Familial Nonhemolytic Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia
- Hereditary Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia
- Crigler Najar Syndrome
- Crigler Najjar Syndromes
- Hereditary Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemias
- Hyperbilirubinemia, Hereditary Unconjugated
- Najjar Syndrome, Crigler
- Syndrome, Crigler Najjar
- Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia, Hereditary
- Crigler Najjar Syndrome, Type 1
- Crigler-Najjar Syndrome, Type I
- Crigler Najjar Syndrome, Type I
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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91(75); was see under HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA, HEREDITARY 1975-90
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- National Library of Medicine. Crigler-Najjar Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003414. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003414
- Crigler-Najjar Syndrome. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crigler%E2%80%93Najjar_syndrome
- Crigler-Najjar Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1140000