Evaluation of Jaundice in Adults: History Taking and Investigations Explained
Question. How history taking and investigation will help in fiding the cause of the jaundice?
Answer. History taking of person mainly concerns with its illness, present and past, and family history which he describe to the doctor.
Its basic aim is to arrive a diagnosis of disease and outline the treatment.
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- History taking is an important clinical presentation which helps in the diagnosis and finding the etiology / cause of jaundice.
- In history taking we are mainly concerned with the abdominal pain which patient undergoes like in hepatocellular jaundice patient will not feel abdominal colic while in obstructive and hemolytic jaundice patient feels sharp pain.
- The second point concerned in history taking with patient is pruritis, i.e. discoloration of skin.
Pruritis is transient in hepatocellular jaundice.
It is well, marked and is present in obstructive jaundice while it is fully absent in hemolytic jaundice.
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- Last and most important point in history taking is past history of patient, like patient can develop hepatocellular jaundice if he / she is in contact with jaundice patient before as well as certain drug can cause hepatocellular jaundice.
- A patient of obstructive jaundice will explain about pain, weight loss or any abdominal surgery before, which can give rise to the obstructive jaundice.
- A patient of hemolytic jaundice has a blood transfusion or certain drugs which can cause hemolytic jaundice which patient had taken in past.
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Investigations jaundice
Investigation means laboratory diagnosis.
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