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Case Report: Neonatal Cholestasis as Early Manifestation of Primary Adrenal Insufficiency

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FRONTIERS IN PEDIATRICS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fped.2021.767858

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cortisol; familial glucocorticoid deficiency (FGD); hypoglycemia; liver; jaundice

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The case report highlights the importance of considering adrenal insufficiency in all cholestatic infants, even in the absence of specific symptoms. Early recognition and treatment are essential to prevent life-threatening events. The report also emphasizes the challenge of systematic search for potential causes of neonatal cholestasis in infants.
Neonatal cholestasis (NC) may be due to multiple surgical and non-surgical causes, some of which are potentially fatal. The list of potential causes of NC is long, and the systematic search for each of them is challenging in infants, especially when overt signs of underlying disease are lacking. Endocrinological diseases as causes of NC are rare and sometimes misdiagnosed. We report the case of an infant with prolonged cholestatic jaundice due to adrenal insufficiency suspected because of a single episode of hypoglycemia occurring at birth in the absence of clinical signs of adrenal impairment. Clinical exome analysis identified a new homozygous variant in MC2R gene as a putative responsible for familial glucocorticoid deficiency (FGD). Adrenal insufficiency should always be considered in all cholestatic infants, even in the absence of specific symptoms, since early recognition and treatment is essential to prevent life-threatening events.

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