Revista de embarazo y salud infantil

Abstracto

Late Onset Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Presenting at Puberty with Ambiguous Genitalia: Surgery with Dexamethasone Resulting in Live New-born Normal Child

Kulvinder Kochar Kaur, Gautam Allahbadia and Mandeep Singh

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.