Heart Transplantation in a Toddler with Cardiac Kawasaki Disease

Kawasaki disease is very rare in Western Europe. The disease may involve coronary arteries. A 2-year-old boy diagnosed with Kawasaki disease had had seizure-like symptoms. Further evaluation revealed recurrent myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction. Due to extraordinary extension of the coron...

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Autores principales: Tirilomis, Theodor, Steinmetz, Michael, Grossmann, Marius, Bräuer, Anselm, Paul, Thomas, Ruschewski, Wolfgang, Schöndube, Friedrich A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5397497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28473974
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2017.00021
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author Tirilomis, Theodor
Steinmetz, Michael
Grossmann, Marius
Bräuer, Anselm
Paul, Thomas
Ruschewski, Wolfgang
Schöndube, Friedrich A.
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description Kawasaki disease is very rare in Western Europe. The disease may involve coronary arteries. A 2-year-old boy diagnosed with Kawasaki disease had had seizure-like symptoms. Further evaluation revealed recurrent myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction. Due to extraordinary extension of the coronary disease, myocardial revascularization was not feasible and the toddler underwent successful heart transplantation after 97 days on waiting list.
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spelling pubmed-53974972017-05-04 Heart Transplantation in a Toddler with Cardiac Kawasaki Disease Tirilomis, Theodor Steinmetz, Michael Grossmann, Marius Bräuer, Anselm Paul, Thomas Ruschewski, Wolfgang Schöndube, Friedrich A. Front Surg Surgery Kawasaki disease is very rare in Western Europe. The disease may involve coronary arteries. A 2-year-old boy diagnosed with Kawasaki disease had had seizure-like symptoms. Further evaluation revealed recurrent myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction. Due to extraordinary extension of the coronary disease, myocardial revascularization was not feasible and the toddler underwent successful heart transplantation after 97 days on waiting list. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5397497/ /pubmed/28473974 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2017.00021 Text en Copyright © 2017 Tirilomis, Steinmetz, Grossmann, Bräuer, Paul, Ruschewski and Schöndube. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Surgery
Tirilomis, Theodor
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Grossmann, Marius
Bräuer, Anselm
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Ruschewski, Wolfgang
Schöndube, Friedrich A.
Heart Transplantation in a Toddler with Cardiac Kawasaki Disease
title Heart Transplantation in a Toddler with Cardiac Kawasaki Disease
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title_short Heart Transplantation in a Toddler with Cardiac Kawasaki Disease
title_sort heart transplantation in a toddler with cardiac kawasaki disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5397497/
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