Gangrene and thrombosis in an infant with congenital heart disease.

Only some fifty cases of gangrene in infants have been recorded in the literature, and the vast majority of these have occurred in the neonatal period (Dohan, 1934). The onset of gangrene after this period may be in association with severe infections (Watkins, 1938) or congenital heart disease (Gross, 1945). Current interest in cyanotic congenital heart disease warrants recording a case with this rare, but possibly preventable, complication.