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A 3-month-old infant with atypical Kawasaki disease
We report a 3-month-old girl who presented with high-grade fever for 3 days. Her initial physical examination was normal. Investigation showed abnormal white cells in her urine. She was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection and received an antibiotic for 1 day. After that, she developed a general...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5976067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29848518 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221456 |
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author | Lertamornkitti, Nichkamol Wangjirapan, Anchalee |
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description | We report a 3-month-old girl who presented with high-grade fever for 3 days. Her initial physical examination was normal. Investigation showed abnormal white cells in her urine. She was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection and received an antibiotic for 1 day. After that, she developed a generalised maculopapular rash over her body. An adverse drug reaction from the antibiotic was suspected, and the patient was referred to our hospital. On admission, she still had fever and was irritable. She was diagnosed with sepsis and given another broad-spectrum antibiotic for 2 days. However, her fever still persisted. An additional thorough physical examination showed redness of her BCG inoculation scar. Consequently, a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease (KD) was made. After she received intravenous immunoglobulin, her fever diminished straight away. This case highlights an unusual manifestation of KD in an uncommonly young age group. |
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spelling | pubmed-59760672018-06-01 A 3-month-old infant with atypical Kawasaki disease Lertamornkitti, Nichkamol Wangjirapan, Anchalee BMJ Case Rep Unusual Presentation of More Common Disease/Injury We report a 3-month-old girl who presented with high-grade fever for 3 days. Her initial physical examination was normal. Investigation showed abnormal white cells in her urine. She was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection and received an antibiotic for 1 day. After that, she developed a generalised maculopapular rash over her body. An adverse drug reaction from the antibiotic was suspected, and the patient was referred to our hospital. On admission, she still had fever and was irritable. She was diagnosed with sepsis and given another broad-spectrum antibiotic for 2 days. However, her fever still persisted. An additional thorough physical examination showed redness of her BCG inoculation scar. Consequently, a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease (KD) was made. After she received intravenous immunoglobulin, her fever diminished straight away. This case highlights an unusual manifestation of KD in an uncommonly young age group. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5976067/ /pubmed/29848518 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221456 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/ |
spellingShingle | Unusual Presentation of More Common Disease/Injury Lertamornkitti, Nichkamol Wangjirapan, Anchalee A 3-month-old infant with atypical Kawasaki disease |
title | A 3-month-old infant with atypical Kawasaki disease |
title_full | A 3-month-old infant with atypical Kawasaki disease |
title_fullStr | A 3-month-old infant with atypical Kawasaki disease |
title_full_unstemmed | A 3-month-old infant with atypical Kawasaki disease |
title_short | A 3-month-old infant with atypical Kawasaki disease |
title_sort | 3-month-old infant with atypical kawasaki disease |
topic | Unusual Presentation of More Common Disease/Injury |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5976067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29848518 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221456 |
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