Asymmetrical septal hypertrophy and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in infant of diabetic mother: A reversible cardiomyopathy

Abstract

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HOCM) that includes thickening of one or both of the ventricular walls, hypertrophy of the interventricular septum; systolic and diastolic dysfunction, transient hypertrophic sub-aortic stenosis is a well-recognized comorbidity in infants of diabetic mothers. This cardiac complication in the infant of the diabetic mother has recently been named as pathological ventricular hypertrophy to avoid confusion with the autosomal dominant form of congenital HCM. We report a neonate that was diagnosed as case of asymmetrical septal hypertrophy and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and was born to mother who had poor glycemic control and was treated successfully with propranolol and showed resolution of hypertrophy in follow-up echocardiography.

Keywords

• Asymmetrical septal hypertrophy
• hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• infant of diabetic mother
• propranolol