Acute myocardial infarction due to a regressed giant coronary aneurysm as possible sequela of Kawasaki disease.
We report on a young patient admitted with an acute myocardial infarction due to a regressed coronary aneurysm who was treated with balloon angioplasty. The wall morphology of the coronary aneurysm using intravascular ultrasound imaging closely resembled that occurring after Kawasaki disease (KD), although our patient had no obvious past history of KD, suggesting so-called atypical KD.
Shiraishi
J
J
Second Department of Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, 602-8566. jun@gemini.kpu-m.ac.jp
Sawada
T
T
Tatsumi
T
T
Azuma
A
A
Nakagawa
M
M
D000328:Adult; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009080:Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D014463:Ultrasonography