Presentation
Case presentation We present a female born at 32 weeks gestational age with birth weight 10–25%ile when corrected for prematurity. Paternity testing was obtained for legal reasons, and initial results appeared to exclude the alleged father. [molecularcytogenetics.biomedcentral.com]
At 29 hours of life she presented hyperglycemia without acidosis or ketosis. Insulin treatment was started and maintained intermittently until 38 days of life. [analesdepediatria.org]
Workup
Even a more extensive workup utilizing a CMA SNP array testing can miss cases of uniparental pure heterodisomy. This inheritance pattern, although extremely rare, should be considered when discordant paternity results come under suspicion. [molecularcytogenetics.biomedcentral.com]
Treatment
Insulin treatment was started and maintained intermittently until 38 days of life. The patient presented anemia from the second day of life, which required iron therapy and blood transfusion one month after birth. [analesdepediatria.org]
Prognosis
Overall, however, her prognosis is good based on her reassuring first two visits. Discussion and conclusions UPD is a condition in which a child inherits both homologues of a chromosome from one parent. [molecularcytogenetics.biomedcentral.com]