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Incomplete Kawasaki Disease in an Adult South Asian Patient

Kawasaki disease is an acute multisystemic vasculitis occurring predominantly in children and rarely in adults, with sequelae of potentially life-threatening coronary artery aneurysms. “Incomplete” Kawasaki disease is a novel concept and considered a diagnosis of exclusion as it alludes to patients...

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Autores principales: Boodoosingh, Neetu, Seecheran, Rajeev, Varachhia, Saleem, Mack, Narine, Minocha, Vinay, Giddings, Stanley, Seecheran, Naveen Anand
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6058420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30057925
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709618792028
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author Boodoosingh, Neetu
Seecheran, Rajeev
Varachhia, Saleem
Mack, Narine
Minocha, Vinay
Giddings, Stanley
Seecheran, Naveen Anand
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description Kawasaki disease is an acute multisystemic vasculitis occurring predominantly in children and rarely in adults, with sequelae of potentially life-threatening coronary artery aneurysms. “Incomplete” Kawasaki disease is a novel concept and considered a diagnosis of exclusion as it alludes to patients with fever lasting ⩾5 days and 2 or 3 clinical criteria without another reasonable explanation for the illness. The multidisciplinary team should be vigilant for this oligosymptomatic clinical presentation, specifically within this subgroup despite age and ethnicity, and the syndrome should be considered as a differential diagnosis in challenging cases presenting as infectious or autoimmune disease.
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spelling pubmed-60584202018-07-27 Incomplete Kawasaki Disease in an Adult South Asian Patient Boodoosingh, Neetu Seecheran, Rajeev Varachhia, Saleem Mack, Narine Minocha, Vinay Giddings, Stanley Seecheran, Naveen Anand J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Kawasaki disease is an acute multisystemic vasculitis occurring predominantly in children and rarely in adults, with sequelae of potentially life-threatening coronary artery aneurysms. “Incomplete” Kawasaki disease is a novel concept and considered a diagnosis of exclusion as it alludes to patients with fever lasting ⩾5 days and 2 or 3 clinical criteria without another reasonable explanation for the illness. The multidisciplinary team should be vigilant for this oligosymptomatic clinical presentation, specifically within this subgroup despite age and ethnicity, and the syndrome should be considered as a differential diagnosis in challenging cases presenting as infectious or autoimmune disease. SAGE Publications 2018-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6058420/ /pubmed/30057925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709618792028 Text en © 2018 American Federation for Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Incomplete Kawasaki Disease in an Adult South Asian Patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6058420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30057925
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709618792028
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