Incomplete Kawasaki disease: not to be forgotten

[...]the latest guidelines by the American Heart Association recommend that echocardiography should be considered in any infant aged less than 6 months with fever of seven days or more in duration and laboratory evidence of systemic inflammation. 3 A variety of helpful diagnostic clues have been rec...

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Published in:	Archives of disease in childhood Vol. 91; no. 3; pp. 276 - 277
Main Authors:	Gandhi, A, Wilson, D G
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 01-03-2006 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd BMJ Publishing Group LTD BMJ Group
Subjects:	Abdomen BCG Vaccine Biological markers Child Child, Preschool Children Coronary Aneurysm - etiology Coronary vessels Diagnosis Diagnostic Tests Diseases Fever Humans Kawasaki disease Kawasaki syndrome Letter Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome - diagnosis Patients Pediatric diseases Veins & arteries Young Children
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Summary:	[...]the latest guidelines by the American Heart Association recommend that echocardiography should be considered in any infant aged less than 6 months with fever of seven days or more in duration and laboratory evidence of systemic inflammation. 3 A variety of helpful diagnostic clues have been recognised over the last few years.
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ISSN:	0003-9888 1468-2044
DOI:	10.1136/adc.2005.086884