Three cases of congenital adrenal hypoplasia: a cause of salt-wasting and mortality in the neonatal period.

Three infants with congenital adrenal hypoplasia are described. The two surviving infants were detected and successfully treated in the neonatal period due to a suggestive family history (Case 1) and antenatal maternal oestriol screening (Case 2). The modes of inheritance, diverse clinical presentation, associated conditions, diagnostic work-up and pathology of congenital adrenal hypoplasia in these three infants is discussed.