Oral Presentation Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand and Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society Joint Scientific Meeting 2017

An alternative to maternal intramuscular steroid injections for fetal lung maturation in women with Type 1 diabetes. (#55)

Erin Clark 1 , Chris Wilkinson 1
  1. Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, SA, Australia

Maternal intramuscular administration of the corticosteroid, betamethasone, frequently results in significant disruption of blood glucose in women with Type 1 diabetes.  This case series describes the use of ultrasound-guided fetal intramuscular steroid injections to achieve fetal lung maturation without disruption of maternal blood glucose.