The clinical and pathological features of an unusual type of infantile endocardial fibroelastosis with intra-cardiac thrombus formation and peripheral emboli are described as encountered in a Scottish boy aged 10 months. The rarity of this condition in Europe and America is contrasted with its frequency in Africa.
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