The diseases causes inflammation of the blood vessels in small children that leads to fever, rashes and reddening, and even
coronary aneurysms that can cause heart attacks in the young.
Not exact matches
It is difficult to diagnose and, without treatment, 25 percent of children with KD develop
coronary artery
aneurysms — balloon - like bulges of heart vessels — that may eventually result in heart attacks, congestive heart failure or sudden death.
In new findings published online in the journal Annals of Surgery on December 19, 2014, researchers determined the hospital costs and risk of death for emergency surgery and compared it to the same operation when performed in a planned, elective manner for three common surgical procedures: abdominal aortic
aneurysm repair,
coronary artery bypass graft and colon resection.
When compared to elective surgery, emergency surgery was 30 percent more expensive for abdominal aortic
aneurysm repair, 17 percent more expensive for
coronary artery bypass graft and 53 percent more expensive for colon resection.
Aneurysms in the
coronary arteries of a Kawasaki victim.
Heart trouble: Afib, blood thinners, CHF, fluid pills,
coronary artery disease, any heart or circulatory surgery within the last 2 years, blood clots, or
aneurysms