Ring-calcification of coronary artery aneurysms in an adolescent.
A 17-year-old asymptomatic boy with a history of Kawasaki disease in infancy was found to have an abnormal ring-calcification as seen in the chest roentgenogram and the electrocardiographic evidence of anteroseptal myocardial infarction. Coronary angiogram revealed aneurysms associated with ring-calcifications in the right coronary artery and subtotal obstruction of the left anterior descending coronary artery. A plain chest roentgenogram may, at times, be useful for identifying coronary aneurysms in patients with a possible history of Kawasaki disease.
Doi
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Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, Kochi Medical School, Japan.
Hamashige
N
N
Odawara
H
H
Kuzume
O
O
Chikamori
T
T
Ozawa
T
T
D000293:Adolescent; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009080:Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D011859:Radiography