The Case | Neonatal seizures and tubular dysfunction in childhood: joining the dots!

A male infant was delivered to a primigravida mother at 35 weeks (due to severe maternal preeclampsia), weighing 3270 g, with Apgar scores 9 and 9 at 1 and 5 minutes, respectively. The parents were nonconsanguineous with no significant family history. At 6 hours of life, the infant developed respiratory distress and seizures and needed mechanical ventilation in the neonatal intensive care unit with i.v. antibiotics and supportive treatment. The neonate was found to have persistent hypoglycemia (with nadir of blood glucose 20 mg/dl; needing high glucose infusion rates up to 12 mg/kg per minute).
Source: Kidney International - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tags: Make Your Diagnosis Source Type: research