Frontiers in Surgery (Apr 2017)

Heart Transplantation in a Toddler with Cardiac Kawasaki Disease

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2017.00021
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4

Abstract

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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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