KROK 1 2009 – Question 74 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 48-year-old patient was admitted to the hospital with complaints about weakness, irritability, sleep disturbance. Objectively: skin and scleras are of yellow colour. In blood: increased concentration of total bilirubin with prevailing direct bilirubin. The feces are acholic. The urine is dark (contains bile pigments). What type of jaundice is it?
- A. Parenchymatous
- B. Crigler-Najjar syndrome
- C. Haemolytic
- D. Mechanic
- E. Gilbert’s syndrome
Hint
Compare the colour of the stools and urine with the type of bilirubin that has risen, and ask whether bile is able to leave the liver and reach the gut.
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