Kawasaki disease: giant aneurysm with a large thrombus of the left coronary artery.

We report a six-month-old febrile infant presenting with stridor. Later on, he developed typical Kawasaki disease with giant aneurysm of the coronary artery with thrombosis that resolved with an aggressive anticoagulation therapy. The giant aneurysm still persisted a year later. Respiratory illness with stridor is an unusual presentation of Kawasaki disease.

Giant aortic arch aneurysm after interrupted aortic arch repair.

An 8-year-old boy developed a large aneurysm of the aortic arch after neonatal complete repair of interrupted aortic arch type B and closure of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect. To our knowledge, this unusual complication has not been previously reported in the English literature.