A ruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysm in a 13-month-old boy with Kawasaki disease

J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2010 Aug;6(2):150-3. doi: 10.3171/2010.5.PEDS1012.

Abstract

This 13-month-old boy, in whom Kawasaki disease had been diagnosed at the age of 6 months, presented with subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by the rupture of a middle cerebral artery aneurysm. The authors performed an emergency craniectomy and clip occlusion of the aneurysm, which was found to be partially thrombosed. The patient was discharged 4 weeks postoperatively without apparent neurological deficit. Intracranial saccular aneurysms in the pediatric population are rare, and are occasionally associated with various systemic disorders. Kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculopathy of unknown origin, but cerebral arteries are usually spared from the disease process. This is the second case report of a ruptured cerebral aneurysm in a patient with Kawasaki disease, providing a novel clinical feature that the authors call Kawasaki syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / diagnosis
  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / surgery*
  • Cerebral Angiography
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / diagnosis
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / surgery*
  • Magnetic Resonance Angiography
  • Male
  • Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / surgery*
  • Neurologic Examination
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnosis
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / diagnosis
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial
  • Vasospasm, Intracranial / diagnosis