Fatal postoperative acute appendicitis in a neonate with congenital heart disease.
Acute appendicitis with perforation is almost unknown in the first week of life. We present a 7-day-old male infant with the hypoplastic right heart syndrome and clinically unsuspected acute appendicitis who died 7 days after the successful creation of a Waterston shunt.
D000208:Acute Disease; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000150:complications*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications