A 30 year old G3P1 African-American woman with BMI 35kg/m2 and a past medical history of hypertension presents for a prenatal visit. Her prior baby was a 37 week 10 pound newborn who was admitted to the NICU for respiratory distress syndrome, hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, and polycythemia.
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maternal hyperglycemia? gestational diabetes?
maternal gestational dm
yep! the case was probably too easy :)
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Two Patients
The patient has several risk factors for diabetes in pregnancy, and her previous child shows symptoms and signs of being an infant of a diabetic mother.
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