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A Case of Kawasaki Disease with Colonic Edema

Kawasaki disease (KD) is recognized as a systemic vasculitis affecting multi-organ with inflammatory changes. The commonest and most serious complication of KD is coronary artery aneurysm, but KD may cause other organic complications beside cardiac problems. Gastrointestinal tract also present compl...

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Autores principales: Kim, Min Young, Noh, Jae Ho
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18756065
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2008.23.4.723
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description Kawasaki disease (KD) is recognized as a systemic vasculitis affecting multi-organ with inflammatory changes. The commonest and most serious complication of KD is coronary artery aneurysm, but KD may cause other organic complications beside cardiac problems. Gastrointestinal tract also present complications of KD in which, for example, hepatic dysfunction, pancreatitis, intussusception, colonic obstruction, intestinal pseudo-obstruction, and bowel edema are included. Among them, colonal wall edema is left unknown in the incidence, and it has been reported even if rare. In this report, we describe a case of KD with colonal wall edema, occurred in 5-yr-old boy who complained of severe abdominal pain and vomiting.
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spelling pubmed-25264172008-11-07 A Case of Kawasaki Disease with Colonic Edema Kim, Min Young Noh, Jae Ho J Korean Med Sci Case Report Kawasaki disease (KD) is recognized as a systemic vasculitis affecting multi-organ with inflammatory changes. The commonest and most serious complication of KD is coronary artery aneurysm, but KD may cause other organic complications beside cardiac problems. Gastrointestinal tract also present complications of KD in which, for example, hepatic dysfunction, pancreatitis, intussusception, colonic obstruction, intestinal pseudo-obstruction, and bowel edema are included. Among them, colonal wall edema is left unknown in the incidence, and it has been reported even if rare. In this report, we describe a case of KD with colonal wall edema, occurred in 5-yr-old boy who complained of severe abdominal pain and vomiting. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2008-08 2008-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2526417/ /pubmed/18756065 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2008.23.4.723 Text en Copyright © 2008 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full A Case of Kawasaki Disease with Colonic Edema
title_fullStr A Case of Kawasaki Disease with Colonic Edema
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Kawasaki Disease with Colonic Edema
title_short A Case of Kawasaki Disease with Colonic Edema
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18756065
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2008.23.4.723
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