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Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 58-year-old

All giant Kawasaki aneurysms may not regress fully; some may eventually calcify, undergo thrombosis, and get detected in asymptomatic adults at later age. Tomisaku Kawasaki initially described this illness as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome in childhood in 1967 and coronary arteritis was recognize...

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Autores principales: Singhi, Anil Kumar, Pavithran, Sreeja, Sivakumar, Kothandam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4070209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24987266
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.132502
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description All giant Kawasaki aneurysms may not regress fully; some may eventually calcify, undergo thrombosis, and get detected in asymptomatic adults at later age. Tomisaku Kawasaki initially described this illness as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome in childhood in 1967 and coronary arteritis was recognized later. We present a 58-year-old male, possibly one of the oldest surviving patients with giant coronary aneurysms who presented with large secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) with heart failure. This indicates that the disease was perhaps prevalent outside Japan even before the first Kawasaki's description.
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spelling pubmed-40702092014-07-01 Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 58-year-old Singhi, Anil Kumar Pavithran, Sreeja Sivakumar, Kothandam Ann Pediatr Cardiol Image All giant Kawasaki aneurysms may not regress fully; some may eventually calcify, undergo thrombosis, and get detected in asymptomatic adults at later age. Tomisaku Kawasaki initially described this illness as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome in childhood in 1967 and coronary arteritis was recognized later. We present a 58-year-old male, possibly one of the oldest surviving patients with giant coronary aneurysms who presented with large secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) with heart failure. This indicates that the disease was perhaps prevalent outside Japan even before the first Kawasaki's description. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4070209/ /pubmed/24987266 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.132502 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Singhi, Anil Kumar
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Sivakumar, Kothandam
Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 58-year-old
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title_fullStr Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 58-year-old
title_full_unstemmed Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 58-year-old
title_short Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 58-year-old
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4070209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24987266
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.132502
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