Sudden Death Caused by Coronary Artery Aneurysms: A Late Complication of Kawasaki Disease
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by ASTM International in Journal of Forensic Sciences
- Vol. 36 (1) , 51-59
- https://doi.org/10.1520/jfs13005j
Abstract
The authors describe three cases (two blacks and one Latin American) of sudden death caused by late complications of Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome). At autopsy each heart contained multiple coronary artery aneurysms with luminal stenKeywords
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