What does an increase in serum bilirubin represent?
Elevated levels may indicate liver damage or disease. Higher than normal levels of direct bilirubin in your blood may indicate your liver isn’t clearing bilirubin properly.
What level of serum total bilirubin is abnormal?
Typically, bilirubin levels fall somewhere between 0.3 and 1.2 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL). Anything above 1.2 mg/dL is usually considered high. The condition of having high bilirubin levels is called hyperbilirubinemia.
What is normal serum bilirubin level?
A normal level is: Direct (also called conjugated) bilirubin: less than 0.3 mg/dL (less than 5.1 µmol/L) Total bilirubin: 0.1 to 1.2 mg/dL (1.71 to 20.5 µmol/L)
Is bilirubin of 2.5 high?
Normal bilirubin levels are generally less than 1 milligram per deciliter (mg/dL). Adults with jaundice generally have bilirubin levels greater than 2.5mg/dL. In an otherwise healthy newborn, bilirubin levels greater than 15 mg/dL may cause problems.
What’s the difference between total and direct bilirubin?
1 Bilirubin direct level is higher than the total bilirubin level, for instance; direct 1.0 and total 0.8 mg/dl. 2 Bilirubin levels show slight increase above the upper normal limit; for ex. Total 1.1 and 1.2 mg/dl. 3 Total bilirubin results are very low: 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 mg/dl which could be false low results or wrong test.
What does it mean when your bilirubin level is high?
High indirect bilirubin level with normal or slightly elevated direct bilirubin, commonly seen by those with excessive hemolytic anemia for any cause and newborn jaundice due to new birth immaturity or RH incompatibility between mother and baby, may be called hemolytic jaundice, for example: Indirect bili. 3.0 high, direct bili. 0.3 normal.
What are the medical short codes for bilirubin?
Medical short codes for TSB, DSB, ISB are total, direct, indirect serum bilirubin respectively. Total bilirubin is the sum of all bilirubin forms in the blood, and not representing different type of bilirubin in the body.
When to take new bilirubin test after jaundice?
Borderline Bilirubin results: Are the bilirubin levels that reach the normal upper limits or slightly above, can’t be taken seriously as jaundice, and need for new test after few days, sometimes borderline bilirubin levels shown up when the person is on medications.