Three Linked Vasculopathic Processes Characterize Kawasaki Disease: A Light and Transmission Electron Microscopic Study

M. Orenstein, Jan; T. Shulman, Stanford; M. Fox, Linda; C. Baker, Susan; Takahashi, Masato; Bhatti, Tricia; Russo, Pierre; W. Mierau, Gary; P de Chadarévian, J; J. Perlman, Elizabeth; Trevenen, Cynthia; T. Rotta, Alexandre; B. Kalelkar, Mitra; H. Rowley, Anne

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038998

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Three Linked Vasculopathic Processes Characterize Kawasaki Disease: A Light and Transmission Electron Microscopic Study

Published in PLoS ONE • Jun 18, 2012

Authors:

Jan M. Orenstein

Stanford T. Shulman

Linda M. Fox

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Kawasaki disease is recognized as the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children in the developed world. Clinical, epidemiologic, and pathologic evidence supports an infectious agent, likely entering through the lung. Pathologic studies proposing an acute coronary arteritis ...

Subject

Adventitia

Medicine

Vasculitis

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