Myocardial Infarction in a newborn from a diabetic mother.
We extracted L., the newborn of a diabetic mother, for antenatal diagnostic of myocardial hypertrophy and anomaly of foetal heart rate. Post-natal echocardiography showed severe septal myocardial hypertrophy with latero-basal myocardial akinesia. We did not observe a Doppler gradient through the left ventricular outflow. Selective coronary angiography showed an occlusion of the circumflex artery. Myocardial hypertrophy is a classic complication in newborns of diabetic mothers. The mother's diabetes and neonatal infarction remain an exceptional association. We discuss a different hypothesis to explain coronary occlusion and how myocardial infarction avoided septal obstruction.
Pediatric Cardiology, Children Hospital Toulouse, France.
Julie
J
Abbal
Soizic
S
Paranon
Gilles
G
Brierre
Yves
Y
Dulac
Charlotte
C
Casper
Philippe
P
Acar
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D011247:Pregnancy; D011254:Pregnancy in Diabetics / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*