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SUBMITTER: Kanda S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8224368 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kanda Saki S Fujii Yoshimitsu Y Hori Shin-Ichiro SI Ohmachi Taichi T Yoshimura Ken K Higasa Koichiro K Kaneko Kazunari K
Children (Basel, Switzerland) 20210521 6
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis with an unknown etiology affecting young children. Although intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) plus acetylsalicylic acid is effective in most cases, approximately 10-20% of patients do not respond to this therapy. An 8-month-old boy was admitted to a local hospital with the presumptive diagnosis of KD. He received IVIG twice and four series of methylprednisolone pulse therapy from the third to the tenth day of illness. Despite these treatments, his f ...[more]