Usefulness of Transthoracic Echocardiography to Detect Coronary Aneurysm in Young Adult: Two Cases of Acute Myocardial Infarction Due to Kawasaki Disease

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-169

  Shiraishi, Jun ^a,c   Harada, Yoshiaki ^a   Komatsu, Sumio ^a   Suzaki, Yoko ^a   Hosomi, Yasuo ^a   Hirano, Shinji ^a   Sawada, Takahisa ^b   Tatsumi, Tetsuya ^b   Azuma, Akihiro ^b   Nakagawa, Masao ^b   Matsubara, Hiroaki ^b  

^a Maizuru National Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Kyoto Prefectural Rakuto Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Balloon angioplasty; Coronary aneurysm; Intravascular ultrasound; Kawasaki disease; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ECG ABNORMALITY; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 10744227392     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.02151.x     Document Type: Article

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