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Fatal neonatal stroke from a prenatal cardiac thrombus.

Amlie-Lefond CM, Basir MA, Franciosi RA

Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA. Klefond@mcw.edu

Despite careful investigation, the etiology of many perinatal arterial strokes is unknown. We report on a 5-day-old boy with a cardiac thrombus of prenatal origin resulting in a fatal postnatal stroke. The thrombus was discovered only at autopsy, challenging the assumption of a placental source of embolus in perinatal strokes in the absence of macroscopic and microscopic examination of the heart.

Published 21 January 2008 in Pediatr Neurol, 38(2): 140-2.
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