Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome with
multisystemic vasculitis affecting mainly infants and children. Although several studies on
cardiovascular lesions in KD have been done at the light microscopic level, the
ultrastructural characteristics and incidences of these lesions have not been well defined. In
order to investigate the myocardial and coronary microvascular sequelae in KD, we
performed an ultrastructural study on endomyocardial biopsy specimens obtained during …