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.
Department of Pediatrics, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
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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