Ventricular tachycardia as the initial presentation of missed Kawasaki disease in a teenager

Maria Elena Gutierrez; Abhay K Kulkarni; Taylor S Howard; Wilson W Lam; S Kristen Sexson-Tejtel; Christina Y Miyake

doi:10.1016/j.hrcr.2021.03.010

Ventricular tachycardia as the initial presentation of missed Kawasaki disease in a teenager

HeartRhythm Case Rep. 2021 Mar 18;7(6):378-381. doi: 10.1016/j.hrcr.2021.03.010. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Authors

Maria Elena Gutierrez¹, Abhay K Kulkarni², Taylor S Howard¹, Wilson W Lam¹, S Kristen Sexson-Tejtel¹, Christina Y Miyake^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ The Lillie Frank Abercrombie Section of Cardiology, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas.
² Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
³ The Department of Biophysics and Molecular Physiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

No abstract available

Keywords: Children; Complications; Coronary aneurysm; Ischemia; Kawasaki disease; Missed diagnosis; Sequela; Untreated; VT; Ventricular tachycardia.

Publication types

Case Reports