Sudden infant death syndrome: methodological and patogenetical types of diagnosis

Abstract

The review presents an analysis of literature data on pathogenesis of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in comparison with author’s experience of infants dead in home. Diagnostic significance of qualified autopsy examinations in analysis of infants’ death is shown. Frequent combination of morphogenetic cardiopathy and early signs of atrial myocarditis can be estimated as pathogenetic basis of SIDS.Key words: sudden infant death syndrome, morphogenetic cardiopathy, atrial myocarditis.