Paradoxical embolism causing fatal myocardial infarction in a newborn infant

A Tillett, B. Hartley, J. Simpson

Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal · 2001 · 23 citations · 12 references

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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.

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