scholarly journals Coronary Artery Aneurysms Due to Kawasaki Disease – a Rare Cause of Acute Myocardial Infarction

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 190-192
Author(s):  
Ioana Cîrneală ◽  
Dan Păsăroiu ◽  
István Kovács ◽  
Imre Benedek ◽  
Rodica Togănel

Abstract Kawasaki disease, also known as Kawasaki syndrome or mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, is a pathology that causes inflammation in the walls of medium sized arteries causing symptoms such as fever, lymphadenopathy, rash, and erythema of eyes, lips, nose, palms and feet. The cause is unknown, although clinical features strongly suggest an infectious etiology. We present the case of a 53-year-old woman, known with Kawasaki disease since childhood, with different associated pathologies, that presented with acute inferior ST elevation myocardial infarction.

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 555-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Takamoto ◽  
A. Niwa ◽  
K. Taniguchi ◽  
J. Takeuchi

Author(s):  
Karoline Rossi ◽  
Danilo José Silva Moreira ◽  
Juliana Brito da Fonseca ◽  
Suzana dos Santos Vasconcelos ◽  
Vinicius Faustino Lima de Oliveira ◽  
...  

Kawasaki disease (KD) or Mucocutaneous Lymph node Syndrome is a systemic vasculitis, which mainly affects children under five years of age with Asian descent, but can also reach other age groups, as well as any other breed. The clinical picture of KD has three stages: acute febrile stage, in which conjunctival congestion, oral mucositis, erythema, flaking, polymorphic rash and laterocervical lymphadenopathy, appear as main symptoms; the subacute stage, which occurs at the end of fever, and leads to the appearance of skin flaking in the limbs, arthritis, arthralgia and thrombocytosis and finally the stage of convalescence that arises when symptoms are almost dissipating and continues until their normalization. The most used treatment occurs from the administration of intravenous immunoglobulin, which for better prognosis of the pathology should be initiated early.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 741-743
Author(s):  
Alan M. Krensky ◽  
William Berenberg ◽  
Karen Shanley ◽  
Edmond J. Yunis

HLA antigens were evaluated in 27 patients with mucocutaneous lymph node symdrome (Kawasaki disease) in the Boston area. In contrast to previous Japanese studies, no incidence of HLA-Bw22 was found. A significant increase (P .002), however, in HLA-Bw51 was found in the patients with mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome as compared to an appropriate control population. To our knowledge, this is only the second disease associated with HLA-B5 specificity. The observations illustrate the lack of unified genetic predisposition for a disease in two ethnic groups, white and Japanese. Such findings may have genetic implications regarding interhuman variation in immune responsiveness.


1990 ◽  
Vol 77 (11) ◽  
pp. 1273-1274 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Wheeler ◽  
A. S. Najmaldin ◽  
M. Soubra ◽  
D. M. Griffiths ◽  
D. M. Burge ◽  
...  

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisayoshi Fujiwara ◽  
Cheng-Hsiung Chen ◽  
Takako Fujiwara ◽  
Kenya Nishioka ◽  
Chuichi Kawai ◽  
...  

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