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Anti-inflammatory effect of statin in coronary aneurysms late after Kawasaki disease

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This work was supported in part by research grants from the Mitsui Life Social Welfare Foundation (to Nobuhiro Tahara); the Kimura Memorial Foundation (to Atsuko Tahara and Tomohisa Nakamura); and the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Grant Number 17K09564 to Nobuhiro Tahara, Grant Number 17K16030 to Yoichi Sugiyama, Grant Number 17K16031 to Tomohisa Nakamura, and Grant Number 15K09908 to Kenji Suda) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI), Tokyo, Japan. Munehisa Bekki, Akihiro Honda, Sachiyo Igata, Jiahui Sun, Seiji Kurata, Kiminori Fujimoto, Toshi Abe, Hiroyuki Tanaka, and Yoshihiro Fukumoto have nothing to disclose.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume, 830-0011, Japan

    Munehisa Bekki MD, Nobuhiro Tahara MD, PhD, Atsuko Tahara MD, Akihiro Honda MD, PhD, Sachiyo Igata PhD, Yoichi Sugiyama MD, Tomohisa Nakamura MD, Jiahui Sun MD & Yoshihiro Fukumoto MD, PhD

  2. Department of Radiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

    Seiji Kurata MD, PhD, Kiminori Fujimoto MD, PhD & Toshi Abe MD, PhD

  3. Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

    Hiroyuki Tanaka MD, PhD

  4. Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Kurume University School of Medicine, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume, 830-0011, Japan

    Kenji Suda MD, PhD

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Bekki, M., Tahara, N., Tahara, A. et al. Anti-inflammatory effect of statin in coronary aneurysms late after Kawasaki disease. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 26, 671–673 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-018-1278-8

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