Coronary aneurysm and silent myocardial infarction in an adolescent secondary to undiagnosed childhood Kawasaki disease.
The majority of coronary artery aneurysms in young adults and children are caused by Kawasaki disease. A case of undiagnosed childhood Kawasaki disease presenting as silent myocardial infarction during adolescence, which was successfully treated with coronary artery bypass grafting, is described. The present case is followed by a review of the literature.
Safi
Morteza
M
Cardiovascular Research Center, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;
Taherkhani
Maryam
M
Badalabadi
Reza Mohseni
RM
Eslami
Vahid
V
Movahed
Mohammad Reza
MR