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A newborn female suffered a fatal myocardial infarction due to significant thrombotic occlusion of the left coronary artery, illustrating it as a possible cause of early neonatal death.
Case Report (n=1)
Myocardial infarction due to thrombotic occlusion of the left coronary artery is a rare but possible cause of early neonatal death.
Consider left coronary thrombosis in unexplained neonatal death; case report extends differential but remains hypothesis-generating.
Neonatal myocardial infarction is rare and its prognosis is poor. We describe the clinical course and autopsy findings of a newborn female with myocardial infarction. Her clinical course was rapidly progressive, becoming fatal before we could detect the cause. Autopsy demonstrated significant occlusion of the left coronary artery as well as evidence of new infarction, suggesting that the event occurred at birth. This case illustrates myocardial infarction as a possible cause of early neonatal death.
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Takeuchi et al. (2006) conducted a case report in Neonatal myocardial infarction (n=1). Thrombotic occlusion of the left coronary artery was evaluated on Death. A newborn female suffered a fatal myocardial infarction due to significant thrombotic occlusion of the left coronary artery, illustrating it as a possible cause of early neonatal death.
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