A child with resistant Kawasaki disease successfully treated with anakinra: a case report

BACKGROUND: Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute self-limited systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is an effective treatment and decreases the risk of cardiac complications to less than 5%. In spite of its effectiveness, some children do not respond to this therapy...

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Autores principales: Sánchez-Manubens, J., Gelman, A., Franch, N., Teodoro, S., Palacios, J. R., Rudi, N., Rivera, J., Antón, J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28390409
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-017-0852-6

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