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Paradoxical embolism causing fatal myocardial infarction in a newborn infant

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition (2001) 85(2)
DOI: 10.1136/fn.85.2.f137
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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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Tillett, A., Hartley, B., & Simpson, J. (2001). Paradoxical embolism causing fatal myocardial infarction in a newborn infant. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 85(2). https://doi.org/10.1136/fn.85.2.f137

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