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Case Reports
. 1979 Oct;133(10):1028-30.
doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130100052011.

Echocardiographic findings in a fatal case of Kawasaki's disease

D A Wilson, E F Luckstead, J H Stuemky
Case Reports

Echocardiographic findings in a fatal case of Kawasaki's disease

D A Wilson et al. Am J Dis Child. 1979 Oct.

Abstract

Kawasaki's disease or mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome is being diagnosed with increasing freqency in this country. Although death is a rare complication coronary arteritis with associated myocardial changes is common. Echocardiography is proposed as a non-invasive study that may aid in the early detection of cardiac involvement.

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