Jaundice present tor more than 6 months may be arbitrarily called as prolonged Jaundice'. The common causes are given below.
- Cholestatic viral hepatitis.
- Chronic hepatitis.
- Cirrhosis of liver.
- Carcinoma of liver (secondary).
- Thalassaemia.
- Drug-induced hepatitis (eg. rifampicin. INH. chlorpromazine).
- Extrahepatic biliary obstruction (eg. stone, stricture, carcinoma of the head of pancreas).
- Alcoholic hepatitis.
- Wilson's disease.
- Other causes like Gilbert's syndrome primary biliary cirrhosis, hereditary spherocytosis, sickle cell anaemia, autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, sclerosing cholangitis etc.
