%0 Journal Article
%T The radial augmentation index in children with Kawasaki disease without acute coronary artery lesions during the convalescent period
%A Jianbo Zheng
%A Kaori Hori
%A Masao Ishizaki
%A Masaru Sakurai
%A Masato Oguri
%A Na Lu
%A Tsuneyuki Nakamura
%J Archive of "Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management".
%D 2019
%R 10.2147/TCRM.S208632
%X We recently reported that children and adolescents with a history of Kawasaki disease (KD) had slight but significant elastic arterial stiffness even when no coronary artery lesions (CALs) were present. Moreover, we hypothesized that KD-related arteriopathy may also cause peripheral artery dysfunction. The objective of this study was to assess the involvement of radial artery pulse waves, especially reflection waves from the peripheral arteries using the radial artery augmentation index (rAI) in patients without CALs after KD
%K Kawasaki disease
%K augmentation index
%K peripheral artery stiffness
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580131/