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Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 12-week-old infant with incomplete Kawasaki disease

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute inflammatory vasculitis that occurs worldwide and disproportionately affects male children, most commonly between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. KD can present with only a few features and thus be difficult to diagnose, particularly in the youngest and oldest pat...

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Autores principales: Guile, Lucy, Parke, Simon, Kelly, Alison, Tulloh, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5878266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29593004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-224479
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author Guile, Lucy
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description Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute inflammatory vasculitis that occurs worldwide and disproportionately affects male children, most commonly between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. KD can present with only a few features and thus be difficult to diagnose, particularly in the youngest and oldest patients. We describe a 12-week-old Caucasian female infant who presented with rash and fever but no other features of KD, who developed giant coronary artery aneurysms. Considering how common is the presentation of a febrile infant with a rash, this case highlights the importance of considering KD early in the differential diagnosis for any infant with unexplained fever. Furthermore, it emphasises how echocardiography can help in the investigation of a febrile child with no clear source of infection.
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spelling pubmed-58782662018-04-03 Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 12-week-old infant with incomplete Kawasaki disease Guile, Lucy Parke, Simon Kelly, Alison Tulloh, Robert BMJ Case Rep Reminder of Important Clinical Lesson Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute inflammatory vasculitis that occurs worldwide and disproportionately affects male children, most commonly between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. KD can present with only a few features and thus be difficult to diagnose, particularly in the youngest and oldest patients. We describe a 12-week-old Caucasian female infant who presented with rash and fever but no other features of KD, who developed giant coronary artery aneurysms. Considering how common is the presentation of a febrile infant with a rash, this case highlights the importance of considering KD early in the differential diagnosis for any infant with unexplained fever. Furthermore, it emphasises how echocardiography can help in the investigation of a febrile child with no clear source of infection. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5878266/ /pubmed/29593004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-224479 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. 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/
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title Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 12-week-old infant with incomplete Kawasaki disease
title_full Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 12-week-old infant with incomplete Kawasaki disease
title_fullStr Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 12-week-old infant with incomplete Kawasaki disease
title_full_unstemmed Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 12-week-old infant with incomplete Kawasaki disease
title_short Giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 12-week-old infant with incomplete Kawasaki disease
title_sort giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 12-week-old infant with incomplete kawasaki disease
topic Reminder of Important Clinical Lesson
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5878266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29593004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-224479
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