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An Update on Reports of Atypical Presentations of Kawasaki Disease and the Recognition of IVIG Non-Responder Children
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute vasculitis with an intrinsic risk of severe involvement of coronary arteries. The worldwide spread of KD and the importance of early diagnosis for preventing cardiovascular complications have ascertained the need for updating guidelines for prompt disease recognitio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10137588/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189542 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13081441 |
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author | Conte, Cristiano Sogni, Francesco Rigante, Donato Esposito, Susanna |
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description | Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute vasculitis with an intrinsic risk of severe involvement of coronary arteries. The worldwide spread of KD and the importance of early diagnosis for preventing cardiovascular complications have ascertained the need for updating guidelines for prompt disease recognition and treatment efficacy assessment. All KD patients who comply with the definition of classic or atypical disease should be treated with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) soon after diagnosis. The objective of our narrative review was to analyze the medical literature about case reports with atypical KD in relation to diagnosis and potential identification of predictors of non-responsiveness to IVIG. Our analysis has shown that the seminal challenge in KD management is the timeliness of diagnosis, although both extreme variability and transience of clinical manifestations make this goal difficult. A non-negligible percentage of patients, especially in the first 6 months of life, might have atypical manifestations of KD, whose painstaking differential diagnosis may be tricky. Many attempts to develop universal scoring systems and detect children at higher risk of IVIG resistance have been rather unsuccessful. Additionally, KD may show different evolutions according to unraveled demographic, genetic, or epigenetic factors. Further research is needed to elucidate all open questions about KD and clarify the long-term outcome of its potential complications. |
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spelling | pubmed-101375882023-04-28 An Update on Reports of Atypical Presentations of Kawasaki Disease and the Recognition of IVIG Non-Responder Children Conte, Cristiano Sogni, Francesco Rigante, Donato Esposito, Susanna Diagnostics (Basel) Review Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute vasculitis with an intrinsic risk of severe involvement of coronary arteries. The worldwide spread of KD and the importance of early diagnosis for preventing cardiovascular complications have ascertained the need for updating guidelines for prompt disease recognition and treatment efficacy assessment. All KD patients who comply with the definition of classic or atypical disease should be treated with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) soon after diagnosis. The objective of our narrative review was to analyze the medical literature about case reports with atypical KD in relation to diagnosis and potential identification of predictors of non-responsiveness to IVIG. Our analysis has shown that the seminal challenge in KD management is the timeliness of diagnosis, although both extreme variability and transience of clinical manifestations make this goal difficult. A non-negligible percentage of patients, especially in the first 6 months of life, might have atypical manifestations of KD, whose painstaking differential diagnosis may be tricky. Many attempts to develop universal scoring systems and detect children at higher risk of IVIG resistance have been rather unsuccessful. Additionally, KD may show different evolutions according to unraveled demographic, genetic, or epigenetic factors. Further research is needed to elucidate all open questions about KD and clarify the long-term outcome of its potential complications. MDPI 2023-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10137588/ /pubmed/37189542 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13081441 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Conte, Cristiano Sogni, Francesco Rigante, Donato Esposito, Susanna An Update on Reports of Atypical Presentations of Kawasaki Disease and the Recognition of IVIG Non-Responder Children |
title | An Update on Reports of Atypical Presentations of Kawasaki Disease and the Recognition of IVIG Non-Responder Children |
title_full | An Update on Reports of Atypical Presentations of Kawasaki Disease and the Recognition of IVIG Non-Responder Children |
title_fullStr | An Update on Reports of Atypical Presentations of Kawasaki Disease and the Recognition of IVIG Non-Responder Children |
title_full_unstemmed | An Update on Reports of Atypical Presentations of Kawasaki Disease and the Recognition of IVIG Non-Responder Children |
title_short | An Update on Reports of Atypical Presentations of Kawasaki Disease and the Recognition of IVIG Non-Responder Children |
title_sort | update on reports of atypical presentations of kawasaki disease and the recognition of ivig non-responder children |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10137588/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189542 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13081441 |
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