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Survival of a neonate after myocardial infarction complicated by late mitral regurgitation
J Hruda1, H J van de Wal, H A Brouwers
1Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Pediatric Cardiology
|May 1, 1995
Abstract:
A neonate born with a normal heart developed acute myocardial infarction at 12 days of age. Trivial mitral regurgitation secondary to fibrosis of posteromedial papillary muscle progressed to heart failure at 6 months of age. Mitral valve annuloplasty improved her condition.