title: Adrenal vein thromboses in an infant of diabetic mother.
abstract: Maternal diabetes is common condition complicating pregnancy and may have serious consequences for the offspring. We report on an infant of a mother with multisubstance abuse and poorly controlled type I diabetes with complications that include multifocal fetal myocardial infarcts, macrosomia, hypoxic encephalopathy and islet cell hyperplasia, and bilateral adrenal vein thromboses with necrosis, a relatively rare complication of maternal diabetes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego-Medical Center, San Diego, CA 92103-8720, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Masliah
mesh_terms: D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000098:blood supply*; D000328:Adult; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009336:Necrosis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011254:Pregnancy in Diabetics; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000473:pathology*