A white female infant had first been noted to be jaundiced shortly after birth. She was the product of an uncomplicated pregnancy in a 21-year-old gravida 3, para 2. The birth weight was 3.45 kg.

IT has been shown that bilirubin has to be converted to its glucuronide or sulfate 1–4 before it can be excreted in the bile. Retention of nonconjugated bilirubin in the plasma, associated with an ...