Rate dependent QS pattern in an acute Kawasaki disease

Congenit Heart Dis. 2010 Sep-Oct;5(5):458-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2009.00362.x.

Abstract

Kawasaki disease (KD) is associated with pancarditis and complicated by coronary artery (CA) inflammation. In the present case, we were confronted with a very ill KD patient with first degree atrioventricular block and QS pattern on the electrocardiogram. This unusual pattern was transient and intermittent. It reflected a conduction disturbance in the context of an acute myocarditis rather than an immediate CA complication. We herein discuss the differential diagnoses of a rarely observed electrocardiographic finding in the young.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Atrioventricular Block / diagnosis
  • Atrioventricular Block / etiology*
  • Atrioventricular Block / physiopathology
  • Electrocardiography
  • Electrophysiologic Techniques, Cardiac
  • Female
  • Heart Conduction System / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / complications*
  • Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / physiopathology
  • Myocarditis / etiology*
  • Myocarditis / physiopathology
  • Predictive Value of Tests
  • Time Factors