Table 1.
History | ||||
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Family: unremarkable. Obstetric: mild gestational diabetes. Perinatal: unremarkable | ||||
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Age | Clinical findings | Diagnostic tests | Interventions | Diagnosis outcome |
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14th day | Polyuria, dehydration, no malformations | Metabolic acidosis, hypernatremia, direct hyperbilirubinemia, abnormal urine excretion of electrolytes, glycosuria, increased PTL, anemia | IV fluids, electrolytes and sodium bicarbonate, feeding via an orogastric catheter | Renal tubular acidosis with Fanconi syndrome, neonatal cholestasis |
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44th day | Klebsiella sepsis, persisting polyuria, growth retardation, hypotonia | As above plus aminoaciduria. Negative desmopressin test. Head US: thin corpus callosum. DNA tests ordered | As above plus antibiotics, vitamins D, E, and K, and ursodeoxycholic acid. Intravenous catheter | Incomplete ARC with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, sepsis |
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3rd–5th month | Recurrent febrile episodes and catheter-related sepsis, polyuria partly responding to hydrochlorothiazide, delayed neurodevelopment | Increasing direct bilirubin and transaminase levels cerebral MRI: hypoplastic corpus callosum Homozygosity for VPS33B mutation |
As above plus hydrochlorothiazide, jejunostomy for enteral feeding | Genetically confirmed ARC syndrome |
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7th month | Persisting Candida albicans sepsis, multiorgan failure | Further increasing direct bilirubin and transaminase levels | As above plus antifungal and supportive treatment | Death |