Abnormal myocardial perfusion pattern in convalescent Kawasaki Disease patients assessed by stress perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance
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Background Kawasaki Disease is a generalised systemic vasculitis involving blood vessels throughout the body, although the coronary arteries virtually always are involved. Previous evidence from echocardiographic, Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) studies of myocardial blood flow and flow reserve in KD patients revealed reduced hyperemic flows and flow reserve, suggestive of an impaired vasodilatory capacity. The aim of the study was to determine whether myocardial blood flow and flow reserve derived from perfusion Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMR), is impaired in children with a previous history of KD.
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