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REPORT OF A PROBABLE CASE

EDWARD LEWIS, M.D.; HERMAN EISENBERG, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1935;49(2):408-410.

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The occurrence of diabetes mellitus in the neonatal period is extremely rare. In a review of the literature White¹ cited 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.

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Author Affiliations
WASHINGTON, D. C.

From the Medical Service of the Children's Hospital.

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