A Newborn with Eventration of Diaphragm and Diabetes Insipidus - Abstract
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common cause of congenital infection. It is the leading infectious cause of infant hearing loss and neurologic deficits. Besides these, CMV infection has a wide spectrum of manifestations including thrombocytopenia, hepatitis, chorioretinitis, sensorineural hearing loss, intrauterine growth retardation and intellectual disability. Sometimes rare features like muscular paralysis of diaphragm and diabetes insipidus have been associated with CMV infection. Few cases of diaphragmatic eventration in a newborn with CMV infection have been reported. The CMV-infected neonate presented in this report had diaphragmatic eventration and later developed diabetes insipidus. With subsequent treatment of the CMV infection, the infant showed spontaneous resolution of the diabetes insipidus. This is a rare case of a CMV infected neonate who had hearing impairment, intra-uterine growth retardation, diaphragmatic eventration and diabetes insipidus.