Myocardial Infarction in a newborn from a diabetic mother

Cardiol Young. 2010 Aug;20(4):451-4. doi: 10.1017/S1047951110000624. Epub 2010 Jun 2.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Myocardial Infarction / diagnosis*
  • Myocardial Infarction / etiology*
  • Myocardial Infarction / therapy
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy in Diabetics / diagnosis
  • Pregnancy in Diabetics / therapy*