The aim of the study was to assess the use of echocardiographic measurements in newborns of diabetic mothers. Maternal diabetes is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality in pregnancy and in perinatal period. Thirty-five newborns of diabetic mothers (pre- gestational or gestational diabetes; case group) and thirty-five controls (control group), born between January 2009 and...

Martin, F. I. R., Dahlenburg, G. W., Russell, J., and Jeffery, P. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 472. Neonatal hypoglycaemia in infants of insulin-dependent diabetic mothers. Neonatal hypoglycaemia (blood glucose <20 mg/100 ml) occurred in the first 6 hours of life in 25 of 34 infants born to diabetic mothers receiving insulin. Despite severe hypoglycaemia (blood glucose <10 mg/1...

Background: Infants of diabetic mothers (IDM) is a critical issue in pediatrics, which is regarded as a major risk factor for birth trauma, respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), birth asphyxia, transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN) and jaundice. IDM is also a risk factor for microvascular (e.g., ocular and renal complications) and macrovascular complications (e.g., cerebrovascular accident, a...

Diabetes effects start in utero and affect neonates, infants, children and adolescent. Gestational diabetes may have overwhelming effects on the embryonic heart as well as the infants born to diabetic mothers. The neonates and infants suffering this metabolic disease may have considerable cardiovascular effects [1]. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a well known condition observed in infants of di...

Diabetes mellitus was induced in female Wistar rats by injections of either alloxan or streptozotocin, and their embryos were found to have significantly higher incidences (7.5%) of brain and heart abnormalities (non-closure of neural folds, and deformities of heart chambers) at mid-gestation than controls (2.2%). There were also increased numbers of resorptions (25% in diabetic animals: 7.2% i...