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Autoptic Findings in Cases of Sudden Death Due to Kawasaki Disease
Kawasaki disease (KD) is the second-most-common childhood vasculitis, and its etiology is still unknown today. Even though the acute illness is usually self-limiting, sometimes, it can generate complications, such as coronary artery aneurysms (CAA), acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10252566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37296682 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13111831 |
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author | Visi, Giacomo Spina, Federica Del Duca, Fabio Manetti, Alice Chiara Maiese, Aniello La Russa, Raffaele Frati, Paola Fineschi, Vittorio |
author_facet | Visi, Giacomo Spina, Federica Del Duca, Fabio Manetti, Alice Chiara Maiese, Aniello La Russa, Raffaele Frati, Paola Fineschi, Vittorio |
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description | Kawasaki disease (KD) is the second-most-common childhood vasculitis, and its etiology is still unknown today. Even though the acute illness is usually self-limiting, sometimes, it can generate complications, such as coronary artery aneurysms (CAA), acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure, or arrhythmias, and can rarely cause sudden or unexpected deaths. We present a review of the literature, which collects autoptic and histopathological data relating to many of the cases of these deaths. On the basis of the titles and abstracts, we selected 54 scientific publications for a total of 117 cases. Among them, as expected, the majority of the deaths were due to AMI (41.03%), arrhythmia (8.55%), acute coronary syndrome (8.55%), and CAA rupture (11.97%), involving mostly 20-year-olds or younger individuls (69.23%). This is not surprising since the CAs are the most involved arteries. Gross autoptic and histopathological findings are reported in the paper. Our work revealed that, when compared with the incidence of KD, only a few cases suffered from sudden death, underwent an autoptic examination, and were then described in the literature. We suggest that researchers should perform autopsies to gain a better understanding of the molecular pathways involved in KD so as to propose further innovative therapeutic protocols or implement more appropriate prevention schemes. |
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spelling | pubmed-102525662023-06-10 Autoptic Findings in Cases of Sudden Death Due to Kawasaki Disease Visi, Giacomo Spina, Federica Del Duca, Fabio Manetti, Alice Chiara Maiese, Aniello La Russa, Raffaele Frati, Paola Fineschi, Vittorio Diagnostics (Basel) Article Kawasaki disease (KD) is the second-most-common childhood vasculitis, and its etiology is still unknown today. Even though the acute illness is usually self-limiting, sometimes, it can generate complications, such as coronary artery aneurysms (CAA), acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure, or arrhythmias, and can rarely cause sudden or unexpected deaths. We present a review of the literature, which collects autoptic and histopathological data relating to many of the cases of these deaths. On the basis of the titles and abstracts, we selected 54 scientific publications for a total of 117 cases. Among them, as expected, the majority of the deaths were due to AMI (41.03%), arrhythmia (8.55%), acute coronary syndrome (8.55%), and CAA rupture (11.97%), involving mostly 20-year-olds or younger individuls (69.23%). This is not surprising since the CAs are the most involved arteries. Gross autoptic and histopathological findings are reported in the paper. Our work revealed that, when compared with the incidence of KD, only a few cases suffered from sudden death, underwent an autoptic examination, and were then described in the literature. We suggest that researchers should perform autopsies to gain a better understanding of the molecular pathways involved in KD so as to propose further innovative therapeutic protocols or implement more appropriate prevention schemes. MDPI 2023-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10252566/ /pubmed/37296682 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13111831 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Visi, Giacomo Spina, Federica Del Duca, Fabio Manetti, Alice Chiara Maiese, Aniello La Russa, Raffaele Frati, Paola Fineschi, Vittorio Autoptic Findings in Cases of Sudden Death Due to Kawasaki Disease |
title | Autoptic Findings in Cases of Sudden Death Due to Kawasaki Disease |
title_full | Autoptic Findings in Cases of Sudden Death Due to Kawasaki Disease |
title_fullStr | Autoptic Findings in Cases of Sudden Death Due to Kawasaki Disease |
title_full_unstemmed | Autoptic Findings in Cases of Sudden Death Due to Kawasaki Disease |
title_short | Autoptic Findings in Cases of Sudden Death Due to Kawasaki Disease |
title_sort | autoptic findings in cases of sudden death due to kawasaki disease |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10252566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37296682 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13111831 |
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