Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Sudden Intrauterine Unexplained Death: Correlation Between Hypoplasia of Raphé Nuclei and Serotonin Transporter Gene Promoter Polymorphism

Comparative epidemiology of sudden infant death syndrome and sudden intrauterine unexplained death.

BACKGROUND Unexplained antepartum stillbirth and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) are major contributors to perinatal and infant mortality in the western world. A relation between them has been suggested. As an equivalent of SIDS, only cases validated by post mortem examination are diagnosed as sudden intrauterine unexplained death (SIUD). OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that SIDS and SIU...

Editorial: New Approaches to the Pathogenesis of Sudden Intrauterine Unexplained Death and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death

Sudden infant death has haunted humanity since Biblical times, and many people are still confused about how to differentiate sudden infant death syndrome from other causes of sudden infant death, such as myocarditis or congenital heart disease. Because of the difficulty of diagnosis, the authors say that SIDS has become a “diagnostic dustbin,” but unnecessarily so. They provide the diagnostic c...

Study of the brainstem, particularly the arcuate nucleus, in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and sudden intrauterine unexplained death (SIUD).

Complete examination of the brainstem involves transverse serial 5-microm sections made throughout the entire brainstem. The number of serial sections varies from 360 in sudden intrauterine unexplained death (SIUD) to 600 in term fetuses to over 1400 sections in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) victims. The procedure is not applicable in all histopathological laboratories, owing to the need ...

 Sudden Intrauterine Unexpected Fetal Death Syndrome and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Teresa Pusiol*, MD; Doriana Morichetti1, MD; Maria Grazia Zorzi1, MD; Luigi Matturri2, MD; Anna Maria Lavezzi2, MD 1Institute of Anatomic Pathology, Rovereto Hospital, Rovereto, Trento, 2“Lino Rossi” Research Center of the Milan University, Italy Received: Sep 23, 2013; Accepted: Oct 26, 2013; First Online Available: Aug 15, 2014 On 26th of April 2012, the “Autonomous Province of Trento” has br...