Child's rare disease journey inspires medical device startup

By the time Aubry Shackelford's five-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Kawasaki Disease, the virus had already extensively damaged her heart. The disease, which affects an estimated 4,000 US children under the age of five annually, causes inflammation in the walls of medium-sized arteries throughout the body. For Shackelford's daughter, Allison Shachelford, and for potentially thousands of others who don't receive the right diagnosis in time, the disease left two giant aneurisms in her right…
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