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Case Reports
. 2001 Sep;85(2):F137-8.
doi: 10.1136/fn.85.2.f137.

Paradoxical embolism causing fatal myocardial infarction in a newborn infant

A Tillett  1 , B Hartley, J Simpson
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Paradoxical embolism causing fatal myocardial infarction in a newborn infant

A Tillett et al. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2001 Sep.

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.

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