A retrospective study that compared children younger than 6 months versus older children of a Spanish cohort of patients diagnosed with Kawasaki disease between 2011 and 2016 (Kawa-Race study). From the 598 patients recruited, 42 patients were younger than 6 months (7%) and presented more frequently with an incomplete diagnosis of Kawasaki disease (52.4 vs 27.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDanondisease is a rare genetic disorder with an X-linked dominant inheritance affecting both skeletal and cardiac muscle. Its characteristic cardiac phenotype consists on a severe, non-obstructive and concentric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) usually associated with a Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) type preexcitation pattern. Whether this corresponds to the presence of an AV or another type of accessory pathways, such as fasciculoventricular pathways (FVP) remains controversial in the literature.
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