Ventricular arrhythmia complicating Kawasaki disease.

Can J Cardiol

Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario.

Published: November 1995

Cardiac sequelae account for the major morbidity and mortality related to Kawasaki disease, and subclinical myocarditis is a frequent finding. The unusual finding of ventricular arrhythmia in a 2.5-year-old patient during the acute phase of Kawasaki disease is reported. The arrhythmia resolved during empirical treatment with oral steroids.

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