A rare presentation of Pompe disease with massive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at birth

J Perinat Med. 2002;30(6):517-21. doi: 10.1515/JPM.2002.081.

Abstract

We report a term infant with Pompe disease presenting in the immediate newborn period. The infant was born at 40 weeks' gestation, weighing 3600 g to a 32 year-old black female. Infant presented at delivery with massive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and pulmonary hypertension. Diagnosis was confirmed by low alpha-glucosidase activity. The histopathology and electron microscopic findings were consistent with Pompe disease. This is the second reported case of Pompe disease presenting at delivery.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / congenital
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / diagnosis*
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / diagnostic imaging
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Electrocardiography
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Glycogen Storage Disease Type II / diagnosis*
  • Glycogen Storage Disease Type II / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Pregnancy
  • Radiography
  • Ultrasonography