Acute myocardial infarction due to a regressed giant coronary aneurysm as possible sequela of Kawasaki disease

J Shiraishi; T Sawada; T Tatsumi; A Azuma; M Nakagawa

Acute myocardial infarction due to a regressed giant coronary aneurysm as possible sequela of Kawasaki disease

J Invasive Cardiol. 2001 Jul;13(7):569-72.

Authors

J Shiraishi¹, T Sawada, T Tatsumi, A Azuma, M Nakagawa

Affiliation

¹ Second Department of Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, 602-8566. [email protected]

PMID: 11435648

Abstract

We report on a young patient admitted with an acute myocardial infarction due to a regressed coronary aneurysm who was treated with balloon angioplasty. The wall morphology of the coronary aneurysm using intravascular ultrasound imaging closely resembled that occurring after Kawasaki disease (KD), although our patient had no obvious past history of KD, suggesting so-called atypical KD.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary*
Coronary Aneurysm / complications*
Coronary Aneurysm / diagnostic imaging
Coronary Aneurysm / therapy*
Coronary Angiography
Coronary Vessels / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Male
Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / complications*
Myocardial Infarction / diagnostic imaging
Myocardial Infarction / etiology*
Myocardial Infarction / therapy*
Ultrasonography