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Natural history

Complications

With high doses of bilirubin (severe hyperbilirubinemia) there can be a complication known as kernicterus. This is the chief condition that treatment of jaundice is aimed at preventing. The effects of kernicterus range from fever, seizures, and a high-pitched crying to mental retardation. This is due to a staining effect on the basal ganglia leading to neuronal damage. With aggressive treatment such as exchange transfusion to lower very high bilirubin levels, the neurological effects are almost always transient.