Hypoxemia and the sudden infant death syndrome.
Infants with known chronic hypoxemia before death retained a large proportion of the brown fat cells that are normally replaced by white fat cells after birth. Many of these hypoxemic infants also had an abnormal retention of extramedullary hematopoiesis. These same abnormalities were found in many victims of the sudden infant death syndrome.
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000473:pathology; D006410:Hematopoiesis; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D007223:Infant; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000473:pathology; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology