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16 consecutive asymptomatic Kawasaki disease patients with giant coronary aneurysms, male-to-female ratio…
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Follow-up
Patients aged 4.9 to 16 years at follow-up
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May support enhanced myocardial surveillance in asymptomatic Kawasaki disease with giant aneurysms; hypothesis-generating on IVIG-fibrosis link.
Asymptomatic Kawasaki disease patients with giant coronary aneurysms have residual abnormal myocardial lesions, suggesting a need for aggressive follow-up to identify silent myocardial damage.
Yonesaka et al. (2010) studied this question.
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