DIABETES MELLITUS NEONATORUM

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
The occurrence of diabetes mellitus in the neonatal period is extremely rare. In a review of the literature White1cited but three cases of congenital diabetes in which hyperglycemia was present at birth or shortly thereafter. The following probable case of diabetes mellitus neonatorum was discovered in a colored female infant on the eleventh day of life. REPORT OF CASE History.—B. H., a colored female infant, was born on Dec. 29, 1932, at Gallinger Municipal Hospital. The father and mother were alive and said to be well. With the recent pregnancy the mother was observed in the prenatal clinic at Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, and was found to be in good physical condition. There had been seven previous pregnancies, six of which resulted in the birth of children who were alive and said to be well, and one in a miscarriage of unknown cause. The

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: