Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia (Sep 2003)

Original Articles

  • Edmar Atik,
  • Antonio Foronda,
  • Luiz Narcio P. Bustamante

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 81, no. 3
pp. 269 – 272

Abstract

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The patient is a 5-year-old male with Kawasaki disease, whose involution of giant aneurysms of the left coronary arteries was surprising after a prolonged period of treatment, which lasted 80 uninterrupted days and comprised anti-inflammatory drugs associated with anticoagulation agents. The distal diameters of the anterior interventricular, the diagonal, and the circumflex arteries normalized by the end of the treatment. A residual giant aneurysm localized at the beginning of the anterior interventricular artery did not cause ischemia. Continuation of the medication for a prolonged period was recommended.