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Unusual Presentation of Kawasaki Disease in a 13-year-old Saudi Boy
Kawasaki disease (KD), formerly known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, is one of the most quintessential self-limiting forms of vasculitides among children. Nevertheless, sparse cases of adulthood KD have been also identified. Despite the self-limited (indolent) nature of this disease, patients...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6464475/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31016080 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4053 |
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author | Sleiman, Rola Almohayya, Tahani Al Hennawi, Hussam |
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description | Kawasaki disease (KD), formerly known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, is one of the most quintessential self-limiting forms of vasculitides among children. Nevertheless, sparse cases of adulthood KD have been also identified. Despite the self-limited (indolent) nature of this disease, patients tend to present with fever and signs of acute inflammation which may averagely last for up to 12 days without treatment, yet high index of clinical suspension is needed in atypical cases early during the course of the disease in order to minimize associated morbidity and mortality. Herein, we report an unorthodox case of KD of a 13-year-old male patient who started with cervical lymph node enlargement, followed by fever. |
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spelling | pubmed-64644752019-04-23 Unusual Presentation of Kawasaki Disease in a 13-year-old Saudi Boy Sleiman, Rola Almohayya, Tahani Al Hennawi, Hussam Cureus Cardiology Kawasaki disease (KD), formerly known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, is one of the most quintessential self-limiting forms of vasculitides among children. Nevertheless, sparse cases of adulthood KD have been also identified. Despite the self-limited (indolent) nature of this disease, patients tend to present with fever and signs of acute inflammation which may averagely last for up to 12 days without treatment, yet high index of clinical suspension is needed in atypical cases early during the course of the disease in order to minimize associated morbidity and mortality. Herein, we report an unorthodox case of KD of a 13-year-old male patient who started with cervical lymph node enlargement, followed by fever. Cureus 2019-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6464475/ /pubmed/31016080 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4053 Text en Copyright © 2019, Sleiman et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Cardiology Sleiman, Rola Almohayya, Tahani Al Hennawi, Hussam Unusual Presentation of Kawasaki Disease in a 13-year-old Saudi Boy |
title | Unusual Presentation of Kawasaki Disease in a 13-year-old Saudi Boy |
title_full | Unusual Presentation of Kawasaki Disease in a 13-year-old Saudi Boy |
title_fullStr | Unusual Presentation of Kawasaki Disease in a 13-year-old Saudi Boy |
title_full_unstemmed | Unusual Presentation of Kawasaki Disease in a 13-year-old Saudi Boy |
title_short | Unusual Presentation of Kawasaki Disease in a 13-year-old Saudi Boy |
title_sort | unusual presentation of kawasaki disease in a 13-year-old saudi boy |
topic | Cardiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6464475/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31016080 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4053 |
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