Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
CASE REPORTS
Incomplete Kawasaki Disease Manifesting as Transient Heart Failure in a Previously Healthy Adolescent
Atsushi YamauchiNaoki NakagawaYuichiro KawamuraNaoyuki Hasebe
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2012 Volume 51 Issue 16 Pages 2169-2173

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Kawasaki disease (KD) is a mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome with important cardiovascular complications which usually afflicts young children. We describe a 16-year-old woman who developed transient heart failure during the acute phase of incomplete KD. The diagnosis was based on the development of coronary aneurysms during heart failure and 2 criteria of the disease. Incomplete KD is a cause, albeit rare, of myocardial dysfunction in human adolescents. Healthcare providers should therefore be aware of the possibility of incomplete KD in patients with heart failure during the course of an acute febrile illness associated with mucocutaneous changes.

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© 2012 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
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