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Cardiac conduction disorders caused sudden serious illnesses in six infants, providing circumstantial evidence linking these disorders to some sudden infant deaths.
Case Report (n=6)
Cardiac conduction disorders in infants may present as 'near-miss' sudden infant deaths, highlighting the potential utility of routine neonatal ECG screening.
May underlie near-miss SIDS; hypothesis-generating for neonatal ECG screening and should not yet change practice.
Cardiac conduction disorders caused sudden serious illnesses in six infants that might have been fatal if diagnosis and treatment had been delayed. These cases provide circumstantial evidence to support a link between cardiac conduction disorders and some sudden infant deaths. A further potential long-term effect of these disorders is illustrated in one child in whom psychomotor retardation seemed to develop after an episode of cerebral hypoxia that was probably by an arrhythmia associated with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Cardiac conduction disorders may be detected by routine neonatal ECG screening, and it may therefore be appropriate to start prophylactic antiarrhythmic treatment in certain children before clinical signs develop.
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Keeton et al. (1977) conducted a case report in Cardiac conduction disorders and near-miss sudden infant deaths (n=6). Cardiac conduction disorders was evaluated on Sudden serious illnesses / near-miss sudden infant death. Cardiac conduction disorders caused sudden serious illnesses in six infants, providing circumstantial evidence linking these disorders to some sudden infant deaths.
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