Monocyte platelet aggregates in children with Kawasaki disease- a preliminary study from a tertiary care centre in North-West India

• Main Authors: Pandiarajan Vignesh (Author), Amit Rawat (Author), Jitendra Kumar Shandilya (Author), Man Updesh Singh Sachdeva (Author), Jasmina Ahluwalia (Author), Surjit Singh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Platelet activation is an integral part of pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease (KD). However, there is paucity of literature on flow-cytometry based assessment of platelet activation in KD. We aimed to analyse monocyte-platelet aggregates (MPAs), one of the sensitive markers for pla...