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Introduction to Sudden Infant and Perinatal Unexplained Death

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The unexpected and sudden death of an apparently healthy infant has been for thousands of years the most devastating event that any parent could experience. Historically, the aim of investigations into the cause of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) was to seek out a potential single cause that could then be held responsible for all cases that occurred. Nevertheless, in the literature of all times, the sudden unexpected infant death has been attributed to multiple causes, and even nowadays cannot be characterized by a unifying etiological concept, so that the term “syndrome” has been adopted. An understandable continued and growing concern has led to a search for an explanation with the goal of being able to either quickly diagnose and predict infant and perinatal sudden unexpected death.

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