Pregnancy and breast cancer in a patient with complicated Kawasaki Disease, as if one problem was not enough: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to the increasing prevalence of Kawasaki Disease (KD) in adulthood, the number of women considering pregnancy is growing. There are limited data on the course of pregnancy in KD with coronary artery involvement.

Case summary

We report on the pregnancy outcome of a 30-year-old woman with KD who was successfully resuscitated for ventricular tachycardia 3 years before. At that time, bypass surgery and later implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation were performed because of thrombotically occluded calcified giant coronary aneurysms. The pregnancy course was initially uncomplicated, however, at 31 weeks of gestation, left-sided breast cancer was diagnosed. Weighing maximum therapeutic efficacy against acceptable foetal and maternal cardiotoxic risk, our

SUBMITTER: Barzen G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9704422 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature