Not all Septic Shock is due to infection !
We describe a case of Atypical Kawasaki disease presenting as septic shock in a 3 month old male baby. Atypical Kawasaki disease should be considered in all infants with unexplained fever for > 5 days associated with 2 or 3 of the principal clinical features of Kawasaki disease . Because young in...
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications,
2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | We describe a case of Atypical Kawasaki disease presenting as septic shock in a 3 month old male baby. Atypical Kawasaki disease should be considered in all infants with unexplained fever for > 5 days associated with 2 or 3 of the principal clinical features of Kawasaki disease . Because young infants may present with fever and few clinical features, echocardiography should be considered in any infant aged <6 months with fever of > 7 days' duration, laboratory evidence of systemic inflammation, and no other explanation for the febrile illness |
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| Item Description: | 2349-6592 2455-7099 10.21304/2014.0102.00020 |