L’intussuscezione intestinale quale causa di morte improvvisa nella prima infanzia

Abdominal intussusception is one of the most frequent pathologies causing acute abdomen in early childhood, with the ileocolic form being the one most encountered (75-95%). The AA describe a case they observed in which an eight-month-old cild died approx. 20 hours after onset of vomiting and adbominalgia with sudden appearance of the symptomatology, while still in apparent good health, of ileocecal intussusception complicated by necrotizing enterocolitis, periappendicular peritonism, and intestitial pulmonitis. The AA then discuss the aspects regarding the intestinal pathology as a cause of extracardiac sudden death, as the same time suggesting that the professional liability of the physicians treating the infant was a factor contributing to death.