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SUBMITTER: Zhang D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7477115 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in pediatrics 20200825
This review summarizes recent advances in understanding the development of coronary arteritis in Kawasaki disease. Kawasaki disease is the most common cause of acquired heart disease among children characterized with coronary artery abnormalities, which can cause myocardial ischemia, infarction, and even death. The pathogenic factors of Kawasaki disease and the pathological process of coronary artery disease are not clear at present, which brings challenges to the prevention and treatment of the ...[more]