Assessment of coronary artery intimal thickening in patients with a previous diagnosis of Kawasaki disease by using high resolution transthoracic echocardiography: our experience

BACKGROUND: Kawasaki disease (KD) is a generalized systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology involving medium and small size blood vessels, particularly the coronary arteries. In these vessels a progressive stenosis may result from active remodeling with an intimal proliferation and neoangiogenesis. T...

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Autores principales: Giacchi, Valentina, Sciacca, Pietro, Stella, Ileana, Filippelli, Martina, Barone, Patrizia, La Rosa, Mario, Leonardi, Salvatore
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25139118
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-14-106

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