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Medial smooth muscle thickness in small pulmonary arteries in sudden infant death syndrome revisitedKrous, Henry F; Floyd, Catherine W; Nadeau, Julie M; Silva, Patricia D; Blackbourne, Brian D; Langston, Claire
Pediatric and developmental pathology, 2002 Jul-Aug, 2002-07-00, 20020701, Volume: 5, Issue: 4Journal Article
Increased relative medial thickness (RMT) of smooth muscle in small pulmonary arteries, peripheral extension of smooth muscle into the alveolar wall arteries, and right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH), in response to purported prolonged hypoxia, have been reported in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Prone sleep position, an important risk factor for SIDS, predisposes infants to hypoxia from airway obstruction or rebreathing. Since publication of the earlier pulmonary artery studies, the SIDS definition has been expanded, and sudden infant death investigational protocols have been implemented. Our aims in this study were to (1) compare RMT in preacinar arteries (PA), intra-acinar arteries accompanying small airways (SIA), and alveolar wall arteries (AW) in SIDS infants and controls; (2) correlate RMT with postmortem variables; (3) determine if peripheral extension occurred more often in SIDS infants than in controls; and (4) determine if RVH occurred in SIDS. Movat-stained sections from standardized tissue blocks taken prospectively from the apex of the right upper lobe from 88 SIDS cases and 17 controls were evaluated using a computer-assisted digitizing system with images obtained from a microscope with an attached video camera. When adjusted for age, the RMT values for the SIA arteries were significantly greater in controls, while the PA and AW arteries were not statistically different between the SIDS cases and controls. Peripheral medial smooth muscle extension did not differ between the groups, and RVH was not seen in SIDS cases. Given the recent identification of brain stem abnormalities interfering with protective cardiorespiratory responses against acute life-threatening hypoxia perhaps precipitated by prone sleeping, our data suggest that SIDS is an acute event not preceded by recurrent or prolonged apnea and hypoxia.
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