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

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

Open Access
|Nov 2019

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, with symptoms such as fever, lymphadenopathy, rash, and erythema of the 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, who presented with acute inferior ST elevation myocardial infarction.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2019-0024 | Journal eISSN: 2501-8132 | Journal ISSN: 2501-5974
Language: English
Page range: 161 - 163
Submitted on: Jul 30, 2019
Accepted on: Aug 18, 2019
Published on: Nov 12, 2019
Published by: Asociatia Transilvana de Terapie Transvasculara si Transplant KARDIOMED
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2019 Ioana Cîrneală, Dan Păsăroiu, István Kovács, Imre Benedek, Rodica Togănel, published by Asociatia Transilvana de Terapie Transvasculara si Transplant KARDIOMED
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