Left ventricular performance and compliance following acute febrile mucocutaneous lymphnode syndrome.
Right and left heart catheterizations and biplane cineangiographies were performed on 115 post-MCLS cases to study the left ventricular performance and compliance, and the following conclusions were obtained: 1) The left ventricular performance of the post-MCLS cases with macroscopic cardiac lesions such as coronary aneurysms and stenosis declined compared with the others. 2) The left ventricular contractility of the post-MCLS cases without macroscopic cardiac lesions were within normal limits. 3) The diastolic compliance of the post-MCLS cases seemed to be decreased but the value could be regarded as normal for children.
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003187:Compliance; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008206:Lymphatic Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009080:Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology