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Incomplete Kawasaki disease with recurrent skin peeling: a case report with the review of literature.

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dc.creator Parmar R
dc.creator Somale A
dc.creator Bavdekar S
dc.creator Muranjan M
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-05-30T11:14:13Z
dc.date.available 2013-05-30T11:14:13Z
dc.date.issued 2013-05-30
dc.identifier http://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=2003;volume=49;issue=1;spage=72;epage=4;aulast=Parmar
dc.identifier http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=00223859&date=2003&volume=49&issue=1&spage=72
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/4452
dc.description Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology that has largely replaced rheumatic heart disease as a cause of acquired heart disease in children of many developed countries. We report a case of incomplete KD in a five-year-old girl. The diagnosis of incomplete KD was made after exclusion of conditions with similar presentation. She was treated with intravenous immunoglobulin following which she made an uneventful recovery but demonstrated thrombocytosis in the second week of convalescence. During the six-month follow up period, she had two episodes of recurrent skin peeling a phenomenon, which is recently reported with KD but not with atypical or incomplete KD. It is important for the treating physicians to become aware of the incomplete KD as prompt diagnosis and early treatment of these patients with intravenous immunoglobulin is vital for the prevention of lethal coronary complications. Physicians need to have a "high index of suspicion" for KD and even, higher for IKD.
dc.publisher Medknow Publications
dc.source Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
dc.subject Aspirin
dc.subject therapeutic use
dc.subject Case Report
dc.subject Child
dc.subject Preschool
dc.subject Female
dc.subject Fibrinolytic Agents
dc.subject therapeutic use
dc.subject Human
dc.subject Immunoglobulins
dc.subject Intravenous
dc.subject therapeutic use
dc.subject Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome
dc.subject classification
dc.subject diagnosis
dc.subject drug therapy
dc.subject Skin Diseases
dc.subject drug therapy
dc.subject etiology
dc.title Incomplete Kawasaki disease with recurrent skin peeling: a case report with the review of literature.


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