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Paradoxical embolism causing fatal myocardial infarction in a newborn infant
A Tillett1, B Hartley, J Simpson
1Department of Congenital Heart Disease, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Trust, London, UK.
Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
|August 23, 2001
Abstract:
A neonate who presented with circulatory collapse was found to have myocardial infarction caused by thrombotic occlusion of the left main coronary artery. At autopsy, a thrombus was found in the ductus venosus making paradoxical embolism through the foramen ovale the most likely mechanism of coronary occlusion.