Two adults requiring implantable defibrillators because of ventricular tachycardia and left ventricular dysfunction caused by presumed Kawasaki disease

Circulation Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 870-874

  Yagi, Syusuke ^a,b   Tsuda, Etsuko ^a   Shimizu, Wataru ^a   Kurita, Takashi ^a   Seguchi, Osamu ^a   Nonogi, Hiroshi ^a   Kamakura, Shiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Implantable defibrillator; Kawasaki disease; Left ventricular dysfunction; Non sustained ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEURYSM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DESQUAMATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HISTOLOGY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINUS RHYTHM; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE;

ADULT; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 22244471698     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.870     Document Type: Article

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