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Original Source: Giant coronary aneurysms: three-dimensional reconstruction.
A 31 year old man was referred for the evaluation of chest pain. Cardiac CT reconstruction revealed multiple calcified giant coronary aneurysms. Most likely this patient suffered from subclinical Kawasaki's disease in his childhood.
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Ventricular aneurysms are usually aftereffects of myocardial infarctions. When the heart muscle (cardiac muscle) partially dies during a heart attack, a layer of muscle may survive, and being severe...
Aorfix™ endovascular stent graft – Treating the cases other grafts cannot treat Aorfix™ is the only endovascular stent graft licensed in Europe to treat aneurysms in complex anat...
Vasculitis (plural: vasculitides) refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders that are characterized by inflammatory destruction of blood vessels. Vasculitis is primarily due to leukocyte migration...
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Clinicians should take caution when diagnosing a child who has a high fever and whose tests show evidence of adenovirus, and not assume the virus is responsible for Kawasaki-like symptoms. According t...
Adenovirus detection not uncommon among children with Kawasaki disease
Clinicians should take caution when diagnosing a child who has a high fever and whose tests show evidence of adenovirus, and not assume the virus is responsible for Kawasaki-like symptoms. According t...
A urine test for Kawasaki disease
A set of proteins detected in urine by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital may prove to be the first biomarkers for Kawasaki disease, an uncommon but increasingly prevalent disease which causes...
Proteins Found In Urine May Enable Diagnosis Of Kawasaki Disease
A set of proteins detected in urine by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital may prove to be the first biomarkers for Kawasaki disease, an uncommon but increasingly prevalent disease which causes...
Remicade Little Help in Kawasaki Disease (CME/CE)
SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- The monoclonal antibody infliximab (Remicade) worked no better than placebo to combat treatment resistance in children suffering an acute episode of Kawasaki disease, r...
IVIG Plus Prednisolone Promising in Refractory Kawasaki Disease
IV immunoglobulin (IVIG) in combination with prednisolone may be useful when IVIG alone fails to help patients with Kawasaki disease, new research suggests. Reuters Health Information
High fever and evidence of a virus? Caution, it still may be Kawasaki disease
(Nationwide Children's Hospital) Clinicians should take caution when diagnosing a child who has a high fever and whose tests show evidence of adenovirus, and not assume the virus is responsible for Ka...
Kawasaki Disease may increase risk of atherosclerosis in children
Cedars-Sinai researchers have linked Kawasaki Disease, a serious childhood illness that causes inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body, with early-onset and accelerated atherosclerosis, a le...
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A ruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysm in a 13-month-old boy with Kawasaki disease.
This 13-month-old boy, in whom Kawasaki disease had been diagnosed at the age of 6 months, presented with subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by the rupture of a middle cerebral artery aneurysm. The author...
The physiological significance of coronary aneurysms in Kawasaki disease.
Aims: A coronary aneurysm is one of the most frequent complications of Kawasaki disease, and yet there is little information concerning the haemodynamic abnormality influenced by the existence of a co...
We present a case of coronary ectasia and LAD coronary artery aneurysm with angiographic characteristics of Kawasaki disease in a three-yr-old girl two-yr status post-orthotopic heart transplant. Coro...
Aneurysms of the vascular wall represent a final common pathway for a number of inflammatory processes, including atherosclerosis and idiopathic vasculitis syndromes. Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute...
Kawasaki disease in Jordan: demographics, presentation, and outcome.
Kawasaki disease is the leading cause of acquired coronary artery disease in young children. There is a lack of data on Kawasaki disease and its effect on coronary arteries in Jordan and other develop...
