Differential diagnosis of parenchymal jaundice

The article presents to the attention of interested specialists (infectious disease specialists, gastroenterologists, pediatricians) information on the definition and classification of jaundice, the physiology of bilirubin metabolism, pathogenetic mechanisms of the development of hepatic forms of jaundice syndrome and the syndromes observed in this case, as well as diseases, both infectious and somatic, in which parenchymal jaundice occurs. Using aspecific clinical example, the features of the clinical course, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, and tactics of treatment of hepatic jaundice developed in a16-year-old teenager with chronic viral hepatitis C and Gilbert’s syndrome are analyzed in detail.