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Patterns of bilirubin staining were studied in nine infants with kernicterus related to nonhemolytic hyperbilirubinemia, all weighing less than 1200 g, and nine matched controls. Three staining patterns were disclosed: a localized pattern in the central nervous system of kernicteric infants, with only the thalamus staining significantly often; staining, in extraneural tissues (adrenal, myocardial, renal, and colonic mucosa) only in kernicteric infants, despite similar bilirubin levels in both groups; and yellow staining of the alveolar hyaline membranes as a function of survival duration in both groups. Bilirubin staining of tissue is apparently a generalized phenomenon, most recognized in the central nervous system as kernicterus. Failure to maintain the impermeability of the cell membrane coupled with regional differences in blood flow would best explain bilirubin distribution. In contrast, the degree of bilirubin staining of alveolar hyaline membranes is time related in kernicteric and control infants.
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