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    Giulia Ottaviani.
    Summary: Crib death or sudden infant death syndrome is surely among the worst emotional tragedies that any parent can experience. It is the most frequent death-causing syndrome during the first year of life, striking one infant in every 700-1,000. Crib death is a great enigma, and one of the main open issues in the social-medical and scientific setting of contemporary medicine. Despite a wide spectrum of theories and years of research, its etiology remains unclear. The scarcity of knowledge in the field of crib death and its pathology has led to continued and growing concern, prompting an expanding search for explanation that will permit either prediction or rapid diagnosis. This book describes systematic studies of the cardiovascular system and autonomic nervous system carried out in a large number of infants, newborns, and fetuses who have died suddenly and unexpectedly, as well as in age-matched control cases. The cardiovascular and neuropathological findings are presented in detail, and the relationship between crib death and unexplained perinatal death is discussed. This monograph will aid pathologists, forensic pathologists, pediatricians, obstetricians, and neonatologists in recognizing all potential morphological substrata. It puts forward a well-researched standardized postmortem protocol to be applied in all cases of sudden unexpected infant and perinatal death.

    Contents:
    INTRODUCTION
    Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
    Sudden Intrauterine Unexplained Death (SIUD)
    MATERIALS AND METHODS
    Clinical and pathological information form
    Post mortem regulation on SIDS
    Necropsy procedures
    Cardiac sampling and study of the conduction system
    Brainstem sampling and inherent techniques
    Study of the carotid bifurcation, ganglia and paraganglia
    Lung: evaluation of the development stage
    Immunohistochemistry and other techniques
    RESULTS
    Epidemiological results
    Cardiac Conduction findings
    Central autonomic nervous system findings
    Hypoplasia and agenesis of the arcuate nucleus
    Combined pulmonary and arcuate nucleus hypoplasia
    Peripheral autonomic nervous system findings
    DISCUSSION
    Cardiac conduction pathology
    Neuropathology
    CONCLUDING REMARKS.
    Digital Access Springer 2014