Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
Incidence of cholestatic jaundice among term infants has been estimated to be around 1 in every 2500 term infants with biliary atresia (BA) being the commonest aetiology[1]
Ongoing CMV infection was defined by quantifying copy numbers in urine CMV polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
One such example is the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detection of viral infection
Summary
Incidence of cholestatic jaundice among term infants has been estimated to be around 1 in every 2500 term infants with biliary atresia (BA) being the commonest aetiology[1]. The third common group is labelled as idiopathic neonatal hepatitis, the incidence of which is declining with advances in diagnostic evaluation. One such example is the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detection of viral infection. Studies have suggested that various viral infections are associated with intra-hepatic forms of infantile cholestasis. We present our experience in a referral centre where we detected 6 cases of CMV infection among infants presenting with cholestasis.
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