Fetal Myocardial Infarction as Cause of Intrauterine Death

¹Associate Professor at the University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
²Resident Physician, Obstetrics and Gynecology Service, University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, University Hospital Complex of Granada, Granada, Spain.
³Resident Physician, Pathological Anatomy Service, University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves. University Hospital Complex of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Corresponding Author: José Luis Gallo Vallejo, Head of Section, Obstetrics and Gynecology Service, University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, University Hospital Complex of Granada, Associate Professor at the University of Granada, Granada, Spain, 
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Received Date: 30 Jan 2017   
Accepted Date: 14 Mar 2017   
Published Date: 17 Mar 2017

Copyright © 2017 Vallejo JLG

Citation: Vallejo JLG, Sanabria JMP and López NL. (2017). Fetal Myocardial Infarction as Cause of Intrauterine Death. Mathews J Gynecol Obstet. 1(1): 007.

ABSTRACT

This paper describes the process by which fibrosis and calcification on the right ventricle papillary muscle –lesions associated with evolved myocardial infarction (MI)–was identified as the ultimate cause of intrauterine fetal death (FD). This is the first case described of fetal MI as a determining cause of FD in utero, with no malformative pathology or tumor present. Just a case of early neonatal death from MI due to thrombotic occlusion of the left coronary artery was found, which suggests that the event could happened during childbirth or even in utero.

KEYWORDS

Myocardial Infarction; Fetal Death; Intrauterine Death.