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Potentially fatal arrhythmias in two cases of adult Kawasaki disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2015

Hirofumi Watanabe ,
Masataka Kato  and
Mamoru Ayusawa
Hirofumi Watanabe*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Masataka Kato
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Mamoru Ayusawa
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
*
Correspondence to: H. Watanabe, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Ooyaguchikamichou, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan. Tel: +8 133 972 8111 ext 8563; Fax: +8 133 957 6186; E-mail: mehi11016@g.nihon-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

Fatal arrhythmias in asymptomatic Kawasaki disease patients with normal left ventricular function have rarely been reported. In this study, we report the cases of two adult patients with largely unpredictable sudden cardiac arrest, despite almost-normal left ventricular function even after the diagnosis of presumed Kawasaki disease, as well as consider the mechanisms involved with reference to the literature.

Keywords

Kawasaki diseaseventricular fibrillationgiant aneurysm
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , March 2016 , pp. 602 - 604
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© Cambridge University Press 2015 

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