An adult case of kawasaki disease with multiplex coronary aneurysms and myocardial infarction: The role of transesophageal echocardiography

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 529-532

  Habon, Tamas ^b   Toth, Kalman ^b   Keltai, Matyas ^a   Lengyel, Maria ^a   Palik, Imre ^a  

^a Hungarian Institute of Cardiology   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular drag therapy; Coronary aneurysm; Kawasaki disease; Myocardial infarction; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031870667     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960210716     Document Type: Article

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