Occurrence of an aortic arch anomaly in two siblings born to a diabetic mother.
A patient with interruption of aortic arch type A, born to a diabetic mother, is described. The patient, a male infant, was the fourth child of a 29-year-old mother, and had a sibling with coarctation of the aorta. The mother had been treated for insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus for the previous 10 years. The infant died on the 3rd day of life after symptoms of cardiogenic shock. To our knowledge, interruption of aortic arch type A has not been previously described in infants of diabetic mothers. The relevance of the case is discussed and the literature reviewed.
Tokel
K
K
Department of Pediatrics, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Yilmaz
G
G
Gürakan
B
B
D000328:Adult; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities*; D001017:Aortic Coarctation; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000209:etiology; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009679:Nuclear Family; D011247:Pregnancy; D011254:Pregnancy in Diabetics / Q000150:complications*; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000209:etiology