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Simultaneous sudden infant death syndrome: a case report
S Ladham1, S A Koehler, A Shakir
1Allegheny County Coroner's Office, Forensic Pathology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
|July 11, 2001
Abstract:
The first reported case of simultaneous sudden infant death syndrome (SSIDS) in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, occurred on February 27, 1998. Two-month-old black fraternal twin girls were both found dead in their crib at the same time. After an in-depth death scene investigation, police investigation, toxicologic analysis, and complete autopsies, a specific cause of death could not be identified. The deaths of the two girls were therefore ruled simultaneous sudden infant death syndrome.
