Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)

  • ALTE (apparently life-threatening event; near-SIDS) – symptom complex associated with respiratory arrest, slowed heartbeat, and pallor of the infant.
  • Sudden unexpected infantdeath syndrome; SUDI – infant death in which a cause of death was identified in the autopsy