Sudden unexpected infant death due to fibroma of the heart

A 7-month-old previously healthy female infant was found dead in her dib by her mother shortly after having been laid down to sleep following the noon time feeding. Because the child did not suffer from an acute illness and no ether evidence pointed to a cause of death, it was initially assumed by th e police that she had died of sudden infant death syndrome. At autopsy, how ever. the cause of death was determined to be cardiac arrhythmia secondary to fibroma of the heart.