Sudden infant death with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.
Autopsy of a 2-month-old boy revealed an anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk. The endomyocardial fibrosis associated with myocardial ischemia was noted in the left ventricular wall of the enlarged heart. Death was attributed to silent heart failure due to the anomalous left coronary artery. Significant clinical symptoms are generally observed in patients with such anomalies, however, they might cause sudden death in childhood.
Aoki
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Department of Legal Medicine, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka 020-8505, Japan.
Saigusa
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Nakayama
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