Acute myocardial infarction and residual impairment of coronary perfusion: unusual complications of mitral endocarditis in a paediatric patient.

In children, acute myocardial infarction is a rare complication of infective endocarditis. Since it is usually fatal, few data on the patients who have survived are available. We report the case of a child with acute myocardial infarction and residual impairment of the coronary reserve, complicating a mitral endocarditis.