643. Coronary Artery Aneurysms Are Found on Blindly Read Echocardiograms From Febrile Patients with and Without Kawasaki Disease
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Coronary artery dimensions in febrile children without Kawasaki disease.
BACKGROUND Coronary artery (CA) dilatation on echocardiography is a criterion for treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin for incomplete Kawasaki disease (KD). However, CA dimensions for febrile children are unknown. We compared CA dimensions in children with febrile illnesses other than KD to those of normal afebrile children and to KD patients. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed echocardiog...
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Forum Infectious Diseases
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2328-8957
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofy210.650