Unusual interventional treatment of a complex calcified coronary artery lesion in a child with Kawasaki disease: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Kawasaki disease (KD) is a medium vessel vasculitis occurring in children, as yet of undetermined aetiology. KD can lead to severe complications such as coronary artery aneurysms, thrombosis, and sudden death. Monitoring of coronary anomalies is an important issue in the early phase of the disease, and their follow-up is based on different imaging methods. The interventional treatment of these coronary anomalies, which is often complex, is a therapeutic challenge.

Case summary

We are reporting the case of a four-year-old child who presented KD which was complicated by coronary aneurysm of the proximal left anterior descending artery and ectasia of the right coronary artery (RCA). These lesions progressively calcified and resulted at the age of 13 in chronic occlus

SUBMITTER: Mezier A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9486884 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature