Hypertensive heart disease is discussed in the section Acquired heart disease.
Kawasaki is the leading cause of acquired heart disease among children, causing cardiac aneurysms, arrhythmias and heart attacks.
Among acquired heart diseases in children, rheumatic fever is the most important cause worldwide, although it has become far less common and less severe in developed countries.
Boston Scientific said yesterday that it had hired William E. Young as a vice president to oversee quality at its newly acquired heart rhythm unit, which last year recalled 109,000 defibrillators.
Acquired heart diseases are conditions affecting the heart and its associated blood vessels that develop during a person's lifetime, in contrast to congenital heart diseases, which are present at birth.
Kawasaki syndrome, also called Kawasaki disease, or mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, rare, acute inflammatory disease of unknown origin that is one of the leading causes of acquired heart disease in children.
Acquired heart diseases include coronary artery disease, coronary heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, diseases of the pulmonary vessels and the aorta, diseases of the tissues of the heart, and diseases of the heart valves.
KD is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in childhood in the United States.
Congenital and acquired heart diseases are leading causes of morbidity and mortality world-wide.
Kawasaki disease is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children.
Transcatheter heart valve replacement is an attractive and promising technique for congenital as well as acquired heart valve disease.
