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Giant right coronary artery aneurysm secondary to Kawasaki disease in an infant

Kawasaki disease (KD) is a potentially decapacitating multisystemic vasculitis with unknown etiology that acquired worldwide attention due to associated coronary aneurysms leading to life-threatening complications in very young babies including thrombosis, ischemia, and rupture. High levels of suspi...

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Autores principales: Algonaid, Omer A., Almoukirish, Abdulrahman S., Almashham, Yahya H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6187052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30337796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsha.2018.08.004
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author Algonaid, Omer A.
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description Kawasaki disease (KD) is a potentially decapacitating multisystemic vasculitis with unknown etiology that acquired worldwide attention due to associated coronary aneurysms leading to life-threatening complications in very young babies including thrombosis, ischemia, and rupture. High levels of suspicion for early diagnosis and prompt treatment are crucial in preventing serious complications. We report here one of the patients who developed a giant coronary aneurysm but fortunately not a life-threatening complication after 5 years of follow-up. We conclude that later intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) treatment could be an important factor—among others—that precipitate into such complications.
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spelling pubmed-61870522018-10-18 Giant right coronary artery aneurysm secondary to Kawasaki disease in an infant Algonaid, Omer A. Almoukirish, Abdulrahman S. Almashham, Yahya H. J Saudi Heart Assoc Case Report Kawasaki disease (KD) is a potentially decapacitating multisystemic vasculitis with unknown etiology that acquired worldwide attention due to associated coronary aneurysms leading to life-threatening complications in very young babies including thrombosis, ischemia, and rupture. High levels of suspicion for early diagnosis and prompt treatment are crucial in preventing serious complications. We report here one of the patients who developed a giant coronary aneurysm but fortunately not a life-threatening complication after 5 years of follow-up. We conclude that later intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) treatment could be an important factor—among others—that precipitate into such complications. Elsevier 2019-01 2018-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6187052/ /pubmed/30337796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsha.2018.08.004 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Giant right coronary artery aneurysm secondary to Kawasaki disease in an infant
title Giant right coronary artery aneurysm secondary to Kawasaki disease in an infant
title_full Giant right coronary artery aneurysm secondary to Kawasaki disease in an infant
title_fullStr Giant right coronary artery aneurysm secondary to Kawasaki disease in an infant
title_full_unstemmed Giant right coronary artery aneurysm secondary to Kawasaki disease in an infant
title_short Giant right coronary artery aneurysm secondary to Kawasaki disease in an infant
title_sort giant right coronary artery aneurysm secondary to kawasaki disease in an infant
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6187052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30337796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsha.2018.08.004
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