Bradycardia in a 10 hours neonate secondary to severe maternal hypovitaminosis D

Neeraj Kumar, Neeraj Aggarwal, Reena Khantwal Joshi, Raja Joshi

Journal of Clinical Neonatology 2017 6(3):195-197

Late-onset hypocalcemia is a commonly reported metabolic abnormality in neonates secondary to maternal hypovitaminosis D. Symptomatic early-onset hypocalcemia without risk factors in a neonate is uncommon. Severe maternal Vitamin D deficiency has only occasionally been reported in a case series from the Middle-East to cause early-onset hypocalcemia (<3 days) in neonates. We report an unusual case of early-onset hypocalcemia in a 10 hours neonate manifesting as bradycardia with prolonged QT interval secondary to maternal Vitamin D deficiency.

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