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Intravascular Ultrasonography of an Adolescent Boy with a Coronary Artery Aneurysm Due to Kawasaki Disease

Pediatric Cardiology volume 18, pages 437–439 (1997)Cite this article

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A 14-year-old boy developed coronary aneurysms during the course of Kawasaki disease. The vessel wall morphology of the coronary arteries was assessed by intravascular ultrasound imaging (IVUS). There was intimal thickening proximal to, within, and distal to a large coronary aneurysm in the left anterior descending coronary artery only 18 months after the acute onset of Kawasaki disease. Intimal thickening without calcification is a new IVUS finding within a persistent coronary aneurysm. It may indicate that the healing process, via cell proliferation is continuing, with the risk of causing a stenosis.

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  1. Children's Hospital (Dr. von Haunersches Kinderspital), University of Munich, Lindwurmstrasse 4, D-80337 Munich, Germany, DE

    S. von Xylander & C. Döhlemann

  2. Department of Medicine (Medizinische Klinik Innenstadt), University of Munich, Ziemssenstrasse 1, D-80336 Munich, Germany, DE

    H. Mudra, J. Rieber & V. Klaus

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von Xylander, S., Mudra, H., Rieber, J. et al. Intravascular Ultrasonography of an Adolescent Boy with a Coronary Artery Aneurysm Due to Kawasaki Disease. Pediatr Cardiol 18, 437–439 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002469900224

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  • Key words: Kawasaki disease — Coronary artery aneurysm — Intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS)