An atypical case of Kawasaki disease with severe pneumonia in a neonate

• Main Authors: Yoshiki Kawamura (Author), Hiroki Miura (Author), Kazuyoshi Saito (Author), Takayuki Kanno (Author), Tadafumi Yokoyama (Author), Yuta Aizawa (Author), Tetsushi Yoshikawa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute, febrile, systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology that primarily affects the coronary arteries and generally occurs at around 1 year of age. Although the diagnosis of KD is generally not difficult, it is challenging in cases of incomplete KD lack...