[Clinico-morphological changes in congenital carditis in children]. / Kliniko-morfologicheskie izmeneniia pri vrozhdennykh karditakh u detei.

The clinico-morphological alterations were analyzed in 6 deceased children with congenital carditis. Morbid anatomy examination demonstrated that all the patients had marked alterations on the part of the heart while 4 cases manifested associated injuries to the heart and to the brain. In half of the children, the disease had run its course in combination with immunodeficiency. In 2 cases, there was an etiological relationship between congenital carditis and intrauterine enterovirus Coxsackie infection which had been uneventful in pregnant mothers. In congenital carditis, the prognosis may be often unfavourable.