ESPE Abstracts

Background: Maternal ovarian luteoma is a rare condition that may cause virilization of female fetuses.Case presentation: We present the case of a baby born at 29 weeks gestational age to a 20 yo mother with history of two spontaneous abortions and no live births. Physical exam after birth revealed ambiguous genitalia, with a stretched phallic length of 1 cm with hypospadias on the ventral surface of phallus and complete fusion of rugated labioscrotal fo...

Background: Neonatal hyperthyroidism is almost always transient and related to the passage of maternal thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI). Positive TSI levels in a neonate is often diagnostic of neonatal Graves disease. The manifestation of symptoms has not been well characterized in premature infants.Clinical Case: A female infant was delivered at 27×4/7 weeks gestational age, with a birth weight of 827 g. Her mother was diagnosed with Grave...