Open AccessA rare case of Kawasaki disease with giant coronary artery aneurysm
Author(s) -
Prateek Vaswani,
Yatin Arora,
Manoj Kumar Sahu,
Velayoudam Devagourou
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery/indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 0973-7723
pISSN - 0970-9134
DOI - 10.1007/s12055-020-01037-5
Subject(s) - kawasaki disease , medicine , vasculitis , coronary artery aneurysm , cardiology , cardiac tamponade , aneurysm , myocardial infarction , cardiac surgery , tamponade , embolization , vascular surgery , radiology , disease , artery
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute, self-limiting vasculitis that occurs in children of all ages. This was first described by Kawasaki in 1967. Spontaneous regression is observed; however, 25% of patients develop coronary artery aneurysm (CAA). These may result in ischaemic heart disease causing myocardial infarction, rupture leading to pericardial tamponade and distal embolization which culminate in sudden cardiac death. Diagnosis of KD relies on clinical suspicion with no gold standard diagnostic test. A case of KD with giant CAA in a 14-year-old female is described with emphasis on challenges pre- and peri-operatively. The review provided post description of the case emphasizes on pathophysiology with clinical course of CAA in association with KD and justification of our approach with an insight into newer treatment modalities.