%0 Journal Article
%T A Peculiar Cause for Metabolic Acidosis in the Newborn
%A Sundeep Kisku
%A Sudipta Sen
%A Reju Joseph Thomas
%A Arindam Dastidar
%J Journal of Neonatal Surgery
%D 2012
%I EL-MED-Pub Publishers
%X Metabolic acidosis is often encountered in a sick neonate and intestinal duplication with heterotopic gastric mucosa is a well-established condition.  We present a previously unreported relationship between neonatal metabolic acidosis, resulting from transperitoneal absorption of hydrochloric acid, and a ruptured non- communicating ileal duplication cyst with gastric mucosal heterotopia. The neonate recovered rapidly after resection of the ileal duplication. We present this case to highlight a rare but surgically correctable cause of neonatal metabolic acidosis.
%K Ileal duplication
%K Gastric heterotopia
%K Perforation
%K Metabolic acidosis
%U http://www.jneonatalsurg.com/ojs/index.php/jns/article/view/15