KROK 1 Stomatology 2014 – Question 86 · KROK (Dentistry)
Transfusion of Rh-incompatible blood resulted in hemolytic jaundice development in the patient. What laboratory blood value confirms this type of jaundice?
- A. Accumulation of unconjugated bilirubin
- B. Reduction of unconjugated bilirubin
- C. Reduction of stercobilin
- D. Accumulation of urobilinogen
- E. Reduction of conjugated bilirubin
Hint
Hemolysis is a prehepatic cause of jaundice; think about which step of bilirubin metabolism becomes the bottleneck and which bilirubin fraction therefore rises in the blood.
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