LETHAL VASCULITIS OF CORONARY-ARTERIES IN A NEONATE AND 2 INFANTS - POSSIBLE NEONATAL VARIANT OF THE MLNS IPN COMPLEX

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 36  (6) , 589-598
Abstract
An unusual case of fatal myocardial infarction in a neonate due to coronary arteritis is compared with 2 lethal cases of mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome and/or infantile periarteritis nodosa (MLNS/IPN complex). The neonatal coronary arteritis was pathologically indistinguishable from typical forms of MLNS/IPN, which cannot be reliably separated and whose strange epidemiologic features as well as their etiology(-ies) remain to be clarified. Further research of the etiology of MLNS/IPN apparently should maintain awareness of a possible neonatal variant of this syndrome.