Warfarin Therapy for Giant Aneurysm Prevents Myocardial Infarction in Kawasaki Disease

We retrospectively investigated the effect of warfarin therapy in improving the clinical outcome of Kawasaki disease (KD) patients with giant coronary aneurysms (GAs). We followed 2350 KD patients from 1973 to 2004. The GAs (≥8 mm in diameter) were diagnosed by coronary angiography. Sixty-eight pati...

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Published in:	Pediatric cardiology Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 398 - 401
Main Authors:	Sugahara, Yoko, Ishii, Masahiro, Muta, Hiromi, Iemura, Motofumi, Matsuishi, Toyojiro, Kato, Hirohisa
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer-Verlag 01-03-2008
Subjects:	Adolescent Anticoagulants - therapeutic use Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Child Child, Preschool Coronary Aneurysm - complications Coronary Aneurysm - diagnosis Coronary Aneurysm - drug therapy Coronary Angiography Electrocardiography Female Follow-Up Studies Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Male Medicine Medicine & Public Health Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome - complications Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome - diagnosis Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome - drug therapy Myocardial Infarction - diagnosis Myocardial Infarction - etiology Myocardial Infarction - prevention & control Original Article Retrospective Studies Treatment Outcome Vascular Surgery Warfarin - therapeutic use Giant aneurysm Myocardial infarction Warfarin Kawasaki disease
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