title: Sudden unexpected infant death due to fibroma of the heart.
abstract: A 7-month-old previously healthy female infant was found dead in her crib by her mother shortly after having been laid down to sleep following the noontime feeding. Because the child did not suffer from an acute illness and no other evidence pointed to a cause of death, it was initially assumed by the police that she had died of sudden infant death syndrome. At autopsy, however, the cause of death was determined to be cardiac arrhythmia secondary to fibroma of the heart.
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Luebeck, Germany. meissner@rmed.mu-luebeck.de
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meissner
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Minnasch
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gafumbegete
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reiter
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gerling
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oehmichen
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D013398:Sudden Infant Death