Increased Neutrophil Respiratory Burst Predicts the Risk of Coronary Artery Lesion in Kawasaki Disease

• Main Authors: Jing Hu (Author), Wei Qian (Author), Zhiwei Yu (Author), Tao Xu (Author), Liang Ju (Author), Qi Hua (Author), Yan Wang (Author), Jing Jing Ling (Author), Haitao Lv (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Kawasaki diseases (KD) is a febrile systemic vasculitis in infants associated with coronary aneurysm. The etiology of KD remains unclear. Human neutrophils have great capacity to cause tissue damage in inflammatory diseases via their inappropriate activation to release reactive oxygen sp...