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Safety netting versus overtreatment in paediatrics: viral infection or incomplete Kawasaki disease?

Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common systemic vasculitis of childhood. The following presentation of a 4-year-old Irish boy referred to a secondary care paediatric service from the community with prolonged fever, oral mucous membrane changes and painless blistering lesions of the hands and feet...

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Autores principales: Charlesworth, Jennifer Michelle, Power, Bernadette, Moylett, Edina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5695529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29122906
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-222323
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description Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common systemic vasculitis of childhood. The following presentation of a 4-year-old Irish boy referred to a secondary care paediatric service from the community with prolonged fever, oral mucous membrane changes and painless blistering lesions of the hands and feet in the presence of elevated inflammatory markers serves as an opportunity to discuss the diagnostic criteria and treatment for KD and incomplete KD, an often missed diagnosis with significant paediatric morbidity outside an academic paediatric centre.
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spelling pubmed-56955292018-01-03 Safety netting versus overtreatment in paediatrics: viral infection or incomplete Kawasaki disease? Charlesworth, Jennifer Michelle Power, Bernadette Moylett, Edina BMJ Case Rep Reminder of Important Clinical Lesson Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common systemic vasculitis of childhood. The following presentation of a 4-year-old Irish boy referred to a secondary care paediatric service from the community with prolonged fever, oral mucous membrane changes and painless blistering lesions of the hands and feet in the presence of elevated inflammatory markers serves as an opportunity to discuss the diagnostic criteria and treatment for KD and incomplete KD, an often missed diagnosis with significant paediatric morbidity outside an academic paediatric centre. BMJ Publishing Group 2017-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5695529/ /pubmed/29122906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-222323 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
spellingShingle Reminder of Important Clinical Lesson
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Safety netting versus overtreatment in paediatrics: viral infection or incomplete Kawasaki disease?
title Safety netting versus overtreatment in paediatrics: viral infection or incomplete Kawasaki disease?
title_full Safety netting versus overtreatment in paediatrics: viral infection or incomplete Kawasaki disease?
title_fullStr Safety netting versus overtreatment in paediatrics: viral infection or incomplete Kawasaki disease?
title_full_unstemmed Safety netting versus overtreatment in paediatrics: viral infection or incomplete Kawasaki disease?
title_short Safety netting versus overtreatment in paediatrics: viral infection or incomplete Kawasaki disease?
title_sort safety netting versus overtreatment in paediatrics: viral infection or incomplete kawasaki disease?
topic Reminder of Important Clinical Lesson
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5695529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29122906
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-222323
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