ABSTRACT
The course and outcome of pregnancy in two adolescents with chronic active hepatitis is described. Pregnancy was uneventful in both patients apart from mild biochemical deterioration in one patient. Both infants are entirely normal. One mother died 4 1/2 months after delivery from primary pulmonary hypertension, an extrahepatic manifestation of her chronic active hepatitis. The second patient is asymptomatic but has evidence of ongoing liver disease 26 months postdelivery.
Subject(s)
Hepatitis , Pregnancy , Adolescent , Child , Chronic Disease , Female , Hepatitis/complications , Hepatitis/drug therapy , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Prednisone/therapeutic use , Pregnancy in Adolescence , Prognosis , Pulmonary Embolism/etiologyABSTRACT
A case is reported of a black youth whose marked diabetic lability was stabilized subsequent to establishing the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis and treatment of the pancreatic exocrine deficiency. The patient had no evidence of pulmonary involvement secondary to cystic fibrosis, but had a partial immunoglobulin A deficiency. A possible common etiology for diabetes mellitus and cystic fibrosis is discussed.
