title: Rheumatic heart disease and coronary vasculitis in children.
abstract: Rheumatic fever is a systemic inflammatory disease which may also cause vasculitis in multiple organ systems.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Two children with rheumatic mitral valve disease and mitral valve replacement developed myocardial ischaemia due to coronary vasculitis. One of them had neurological findings that may be attributed to cerebral vasculitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey. ngunal@omu.edu.tr
authors.forename: Nazlihan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gunal
authors.forename: Kemal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Baysal
authors.forename: Pelin
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Haciomeroglu
authors.forename: Nursen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Belet
authors.forename: Fersat
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kolbakir
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D005260:Female; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000209:etiology; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000150:complications*; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology*