Heart Transplantation in a Toddler with Cardiac Kawasaki Disease

Theodor Tirilomis; Michael Steinmetz; Marius Grossmann; Anselm Bräuer; Thomas Paul; Wolfgang Ruschewski; Friedrich A. Schöndube

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Heart Transplantation in a Toddler with Cardiac Kawasaki Disease

Authors: Theodor Tirilomis
Michael Steinmetz
Marius Grossmann
Anselm Bräuer
Thomas Paul
Wolfgang Ruschewski
Friedrich A. Schöndube
Publication date: 1 April 2017
Publisher: 'Frontiers Media SA'
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Abstract

Kawasaki disease is very rare in Western Europe. The disease may involve coronary arteries. A 2-year-old boy diagnosed with Kawasaki disease had had seizure-like symptoms. Further evaluation revealed recurrent myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction. Due to extraordinary extension of the coronary disease, myocardial revascularization was not feasible and the toddler underwent successful heart transplantation after 97 days on waiting list

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