Case Report
Late Onset Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Presenting at Puberty with Ambiguous Genitalia: Surgery with Dexamethasone Resulting in Live New-born Normal Child
Kulvinder Kochar Kaur1*, Gautam Allahbadia2 and Mandeep Singh31Centre for Human Reproduction, Punjab, India
2Rotunda-a Centre for Human Reproduction, Mumbai, India
3Swami Satyanand Hospital, Punjab, India
- *Corresponding Author:
- Kulvinder Kochar Kaur
Centre for Human Reproduction
Punjab, India
Tel: +91-9501358180
E-mail: kulvinder.dr@gmail.com
Received date: March 03, 2017; Accepted date: March 31, 2017; Published date: April 05, 2017
Citation: Kaur KK, Allahbadia G, Singh M (2017) Late Onset Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Presenting at Puberty with Ambiguous Genitalia: Surgery with Dexamethasone Resulting in Live New-born Normal Child. J Preg Child Health 4:310. doi:10.4172/2376-127X.1000310
Copyright: © 2017 Kaur KK, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Abstract
Hirsutism is normally found with raised androgens along with excessive hair in the female giving a male like pattern and rarely in anovulation may a female present with virilization extreme in just simple PCOS. But here we present a girl who presented with late onset congenital hyperplasia who presented at puberty with development of ambiguous genitalia giving the impression of a fall causing it but investigations revealed a normal karyotype &raised 17 hydroxy progesterone with marked stimulation with ACTH and examination under anesthesia revealing a normal female like pattern after which her external genitalia were refashioned and she conceived after getting married on dexamethasone giving birth to an apparently normal daughter.