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  • Title: Noninvasive visualization of coronary arterial aneurysm in infants and young children with mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome with two dimensional echocardiography.
    Author: Hiraishi S, Yashiro K, Kusano S.
    Journal: Am J Cardiol; 1979 Jun; 43(6):1225-33. PubMed ID: 443180.
    Abstract:
    Real time two dimensional echocardiographic studies of the main coronary arteries were performed in 30 normal subjects and 58 patients with the mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome. Four echocardiographic coronary arterial patterns were observed: linear, dilated, fusiform or spherical. In normal subjects the left main coronary artery generally had a linear pattern but had a dilated pattern in two patients. The right coronary artery could not be visualized clearly. In 7 of the 58 patients with the mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, a portion of the left main coronary artery had a fusiform or spherical pattern, or both, and the stem of the right coronary artery also had a spherical pattern in 2 patients. In all five patients who had coronary angiography, the procedure confirmed an aneurysm in the left main coronary artery or its branching point and the stem of the left anterior descending coronary artery or the stem of the right coronary artery, or both. In three of the five patients, coronary arterial aneurysms were predicted before coronary angiography was performed. Thus, two dimensional echocardiography is a reliable noninvasive method for evaluating coronary arterial aneurysms in infants and young children.
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