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Leukocytosis and neutrophilia is common during the acute phase of Kawasaki disease whereas leukopenia is not common and severe neutropenia is rare. Severe neutropenia is defined as absolute neutrophil count...
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic febrile illness, predominantly affecting children less than the age of 5 years. After its first description in 1967 by Dr Tomisaku Kawasaki, KD...
Evidence-based medicine is a medical movement combining professional experience with the best scientific research results. Treatment of Kawasaki disease in the acute phase is directed at reducing inflammation in the...
PURPOSE: In developed countries, acute rheumatic fever appears to be a vanishing disease. In Korea, the incidence and severity of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) has significantly decreased in recent 30...
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute multisystem vasculitic syndrome of unknown etiology occurring mostly in infants and children younger than 5 years of age. In developed countries, KD is currently...
Multiple cardiac myxomas are rare in children. However, myxomas may be lethal because of their various manifestations such as blood flow obstruction, embolization and constitutional changes. Especially, the cerebral infarction...
PURPOSE: Recently most of patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) get treatment within several days of illness. But, some patients still suffer from coronary complication (CC) despite early initial treatment with...
PURPOSE: Glutathione-S-transferase (GST) is a phase II metabolism enzyme and plays an important role in the detoxification of various chemicals. Recently, the genetic background of Kawasaki disease has been investigated...