Virtual histology intravascular ultrasound evaluation of coronary artery lesions within 1 year and more than 10 years after the onset of Kawasaki disease.

•Atherosclerotic change can be detected by virtual histological intravascular ultrasonography (VH-IVUS) in patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) for <1 year.•Those findings were not different from those in patients with KD for >10 years.•VH-IVUS atherosclerosis findings do not apply in KD.