PEDIATRICS Vol. 16 No. 5 November 1955, pp. 673-676
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PERICARDITIS IN THE NEWBORN

Marie Valdes-Dapena M.D.1 and William H. Miller M.D.1

1 The Department of Pathology, Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, and Fitzgerald-Mercy Hospital, Darby, Pennsylvania.

A review of the literature has revealed 9 instances of pericarditis in fetuses and newborn infants less than 2 days of age. In only 2 of these are the histologic findings available. We have reported the macroscopic and microscopic findings in 2 additional patients with pericarditis, 1 of whom was a premature stillborn fetus. The second patient was a full-term infant who lived for 4 days and who manifested sufficient evidence of cardiac dysfunction to warrant electrocardiographic studies.