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Article: Incomplete Kawasaki disease: a pediatric diagnostic conflict/ Inkomplet Kawasaki hastaligi: pediatrik tanisal zorluk.(Letters to the Editor/Editore Mektuplar)(Letter to the editor)
- Article from:
- The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology (Anadolu Kardiyoloji Dergisi)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
- Author:
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Dear Editor,
We read with interest the article "Incomplete Kawasaki disease: a pediatric diagnostic conflict" by Celik et al (1). They reported two children with incomplete Kawasaki disease (KD) who responded to 2 g/kg single dose intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) and 3 mg/kg aspirin (1).
Sonobe et al. (2) recently reported that the coronary artery abnormality (CAA) prevalence of incomplete KD (18.4%) was higher than that of complete KD (14.2%) among 15,857 cases with KD (83.9% complete KD and 16.1% incomplete KD) using the data from the 17th Japanese nationwide survey of KD. Because late diagnosis of KD increases the risk for coronary artery ...