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Myocardial infarction is an extremely uncommon condition to be diagnosed in the pediatric population in general and neonatal period in particular, where it is most seen in association with congenital and structural heart diseases. It can also follow cardiac surgery or can also be unrelated to any cardiovascular pathology. In few others, it may truly remain idiopathic. This is a report of healed and calcified transmural myocardial infarction in a neonate, where we postulate that an abnormal outpouching of the accessory chamber of the right ventricle could have led to compression of the left coronary artery.
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Sathe, P., Vaideeswar, P. (2022). Extensive Myocardial Scarring in a Neonate. In: Vaideeswar, P. (eds) Tropical Cardiovascular Pathology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3720-0_32
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