Three linked vasculopathic processes characterize Kawasaki disease: a light and transmission electron microscopic study.

Three linked vasculopathic processes characterize Kawasaki disease: a light and transmission electron microscopic study.

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 followed by...

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Main Authors: Jan Marc Orenstein, Stanford T Shulman, Linda M Fox, Susan C Baker, Masato Takahashi, Tricia R Bhatti, Pierre A Russo, Gary W Mierau, Jean Pierre de Chadarévian, Elizabeth J Perlman, Cynthia Trevenen, Alexandre T Rotta, Mitra B Kalelkar, Anne H Rowley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3377625?pdf=render

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