Sudden unexpected death of a term fetus in an anticardiolipin-positive mother.

@article{Ottaviani2004SuddenUD,
  title={Sudden unexpected death of a term fetus in an anticardiolipin-positive mother.},
  author={Giulia Ottaviani and Anna Maria Lavezzi and Lino Rossi and Luigi Matturri},
  journal={American journal of perinatology},
  year={2004},
  volume={21 2},
  pages={
          79-83
        }
}
A term male fetus suddenly and unexpectedly died in utero at the 40th week of gestation. The mother had a regular and unremarkable pregnancy except for an anticardiolipin antibodies positivity. The histological examination of the cardiac conduction system showed islands of conduction tissue in the central fibrous body, known as persistent fetal dispersion. The brainstem examination revealed a severe bilateral hypoplasia of the arcuate nucleus. This morphological finding has been described in… 
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