Laryngeal basement membrane thickening is not a reliable postmortem marker for SIDS: results from the Chicago Infant Mortality Study.
Laryngeal basement membrane thickening is not a reliable postmortem marker for SIDS: results from the Chicago Infant Mortality Study.
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喉部基底膜增厚并不是 SIDS 的可靠死后标志：芝加哥婴儿死亡率研究的结果。
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10.1097/00000433-199909000-00001
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1999
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Hoffman,HJ
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Krous,HF;Hauck,FR;Herman,SM;Valdes-Dapena,M;McClatchey,KD;Filkins,JA;Hoffman,HJ
It has been suggested that laryngeal basement membrane (LBM) thickening is a pathognomonic postmortem marker for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and is not seen in other causes of explained sudden infant death. To test this hypothesis, we evaluated longitudinal sections of the right hemilarynx taken through the midpoint of the true vocal cord from 129 SIDS cases and 77 postneonatal sudden infant death controls. Using a five-point semi-quantitative scale, maximum LBM thickness (LBMT) for SIDS cases and controls was not statistically different (mean, 2.39+ 0.69 and 2.40+ 0.77, respectively). Likewise, scores based on the average thickness along the entire basement membrane (ie," average" score), were not found to be different between SIDS cases and controls. Average and maximum LBMT increased with age in both SIDS cases and controls and were not different between SIDS cases and controls within each age interval. Similar trends in the distribution of maximum and average LBMTs were found between black and Hispanic SIDS and controls; the number of white/non-Hispanic infants was too low for meaningful comparisons. Maximum and average LBMTs were not different in SIDS cases and controls exposed to environmental tobacco compared with unexposed infants. The LBMTs also increased significantly with body weight and length in both SIDS cases and controls. Finally, there were no differences in LBMT in infants intubated prior to death compared with those who were not intubated. From these data, we conclude that LBMT is not pathognomonic of SIDS, is present or absent with equal frequency in SIDS and controls, increases with postnatal age, and does not correlate with passive smoke exposure. Therefore, LBMT should not be used to diagnose SIDS.
