Kawasaki disease: abnormal initial echocardiogram is associated with resistance to IV Ig and development of coronary artery lesions

• Main Authors: Dima Chbeir (Author), Jean Gaschignard (Author), Ronan Bonnefoy (Author), Constance Beyler (Author), Isabelle Melki (Author), Albert Faye (Author), Ulrich Meinzer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile systemic vasculitis that affects small and medium blood vessels. Intensified treatments for the most severely affected patients have been proposed recently, and the early identification of KD patients at high risk for coronary artery aneu...