Glossary for Obstructive Jaundice

• Abdominal conditions: Medical conditions affecting the abdominal region.
• Alveolar Hydatid Disease: Rare multi-organ tapeworm infection caught from animals.
• Annular pancreas: An abnormality where a ring of pancreatic tissue forms around the duodenum and can block the flow of food through the digestive system. The severity of symptoms depends on the degree of constriction. Partial obstruction may not be detected until adulthood.
• Bard-Pic syndrome: The presence of jaundice, enlarged gallbladder and progressive wasting of the body which indicates a head or pancreatic cancer.
• Biliary Atresia: A rare condition that can affect newborns where the bile duct that carries the bile from the liver to the small intestine is blocked or missing.
• Blood conditions: Conditions that affect the blood
• Chills: Excessive feeling of coldness.
• Cholangitis: bile duct inflammation (cholangitis)
• Cholestasis: A condition where the bile flow is impaired or completely halted.
• Cirrhosis of liver: Chronic liver disease wherein normal liver parenchyma is replaced by fibrous tissue.
• Coagulopathy: A disorder of the blood where it fails to clot normally.
• Cystic Fibrosis: Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease affecting the exocrine (mucus) glands of the lungs, liver, pancreas, and intestines, causing progressive disability due to multisystem failure.
• Dark urine: A dark discolouration of the urine.
• Diethylstilbestrol: A synthetic nonsteroidal estrogen
• Digestive Diseases: Diseases that affect the digestive system
• Dubin-Johnson Syndrome: A rare inherited condition where impaired metabolism of bilirubin results in chronic mild jaundice.
• Fever: Elevation of the body temperature above the normal 37 degrees celsius
• Gall Bladder Cancer: Cancer of the gall bladder.
• Gallstones: Stone-like deposits in the gall bladder.
• Hepatitis: Any type of liver inflammation or infection.
• Hepatocellular jaundice: A condition which is characterized by jaundice due to injury or damage to the hepatocellular cells of the liver
• Itching skin: Itching feeling of the skin.
• Lathosterolosis: A very rare disorder where an enzyme (sterol C5-desaturase) deficiency prevents the normal synthesis of cholesterol in the body. The deficiency causes various malformations, mental retardation and liver disease.
• Liver conditions: Any condition that affects the liver
• Malabsorption syndrome: is an alteration in the ability of the intestine to absorb nutrients adequately into the bloodstream
• Pale stool: Unusual paleness of stool
• Pancreatic cancer: Pancreatic cancer is a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas
• Pancreatitis: Inflammation of the pancreas causing digestive complaints.
• Primary biliary cirrhosis: Primary biliary cirrhosis is a chronic and progressive cholestatic disease of the liver.
• Primary sclerosing cholangitis: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic cholestatic liver disease of unknown etiology that is recognized increasingly in children.
• Pruritus: The sensation of itch
• Sarcoidosis: Rare autoimmune disease usually affecting the lungs.
• Sclerosing Cholangitis: Chronic hereditary disease causing inflammation and destruction of the bile ducts in and around the liver with subsequent blockage to bile flow
• Skin conditions: Any condition that affects the skin
• Somatostatinoma: A very rare disorder where tumors in glands that produce somatostatin affect the secretion of the hormone. The tumor mainly occurs in the pancreas but can also occur in the intestinal tract.
• Vitamin K deficiency: Deficiency of vitamin K

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