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Myocardial Infarction and Functional Outcome Assessment in Pigs
Published on: April 25, 2014
[Acute myocardial infarction in a 5-year-old boy]
C Romero Ibarra1, M Bueno Campaña, L M Barriuso Lapresa
1Unidad de Cardiología, Hospital Infantil Virgen del Camino, Pamplona.
Revista Espanola De Cardiologia
|November 1, 1996
Abstract:
We present the case of a child five and half years-old that died suddenly due to an acute myocardial infarction. The anatomopathological study showed a total obstruction of the left coronary ostium by mixoide dysplasia of the aortic valve. We revise the literature and briefly expose the more frequent causes of infarction in infancy.
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