Persistent coronary arterial inflammation in a patient long after the onset of Kawasaki disease

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 193-194

  Suda, Kenji ^a   Tahara, Nobuhiro ^a   Kudo, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yoshimoto, Hironaga ^a   Iemura, Motofumi ^a   Ueno, Takafumi ^a   Kaida, Hayato ^a   Ishibashi, Masatoshi ^a   Imaizumi, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluorodeoxyglucose; Giant coronary artery aneurysm; Inflammation; Kawasaki disease; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; STATIN;

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY WALL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SMOKING;

EID: 84855860963     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.10.078     Document Type: Article

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