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We describe a term newborn who, after a normal gestational course, presented at birth with absent cardiac activity and no spontaneous breathing. Death occurred within 30 h. Autopsy revealed placental villous immaturity, multiple acute hypoxic lesions, but also chronic hypoxic lesions like
BACKGROUND
Endocardial fibroelastosis (EFE) is a diffuse thickening of the ventricular endocardium, causing myocardial dysfunction and presenting as unexplained heart failure in infants and children. One of the postulated causes is persistent and increased wall tension in the ventricles.
RESULTS
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Uncommon observation of endocardial fibroelastosis of the left auricle and ventricle found at autopsy. The 46-year-old female patient had her mitral valve replaced 15 months ago because of mitral stenosis (and slight incompetence). The left auricle with certainty did not show endocardial fibrosis at
Nine cases of myocardial infarction in the newborns (8 cases aged between 7 days and 6 months) and infants (1 case aged 12 years and 6 months) were followed up for 15 years. The etiology was different: mediocalcosis of the coronaries, congenital abnormalities of the heart marked hypertrophy of left