BCG reactivation: a useful diagnostic tool even for incomplete Kawasaki disease

Incomplete Kawasaki disease: The usefulness of BCG reactivation as a diagnostic tool.

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an extremely rare condition in infants younger than 3 months old. Cardiovascular complications are unfortunately most common in young infants and it is in this age group, incomplete Kawasaki disease (IKD) is more frequently reported. Because IKD is a diagnostic dilemma, any sign that could help early diagnosis, such as BCG reactivation is useful. Here we report on an in...

incomplete kawasaki disease: a diagnostic dilemma

Diagnostic characteristics of supplemental laboratory criteria for incomplete Kawasaki disease in children with complete Kawasaki disease

PURPOSE In 2004, the American Heart Association (AHA) had published an algorithm for the diagnosis of incomplete Kawasaki disease (KD). The aim of the present study was to investigate characteristics of supplemental laboratory criteria in this algorithm. METHODS We retrospectively examined the medical records of 355 patients with KD who were treated with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) duri...

Incomplete Kawasaki disease in Egypt

Received: 21 July 2017 Accepted: 19 September 2017 c © 2017 The Author(s), licensee Magdi Yacoub Institute. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY-4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cite this article as: Agha HM, Hamza HS. Incomplete ...

Diagnosis of incomplete Kawasaki disease

Several authors suggested that the clinical characteristics of incomplete presentation of Kawasaki disease are similar to those of complete presentation and that the 2 forms of presentation are not separate entities. Based on this suggestion, a diagnosis of incomplete Kawasaki disease in analogy to the findings of complete presentation is reasonable. Currently, the diagnosis of incomplete Kawas...