PEDIATRICS Vol. 105 No. 5 May 2000, p. e64
ELECTRONIC ARTICLE:
Ticlopidine Plus Aspirin for Coronary Thrombosis in Kawasaki
Disease
Received Sep 28, 1999; accepted Dec 13, 1999.
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From the Departments of * Cardiology and
Medicine,
Children's Hospital, and § Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, Massachusetts; and
Department of Pediatrics, Mount
Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.
Selective inhibitors of the adenosine 5'-diphosphate pathway of platelet activation have been used rarely in children in the United States. We report the successful use of ticlopidine, together with aspirin, in a 7-month-old infant with Kawasaki disease complicated by a thrombus in a giant coronary aneurysm that failed to resolve with thrombolytic therapy. Kawasaki disease, coronary aneurysms, antithrombotic therapy, ticlopidine, children.
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