Diagnosing incomplete kawasaki disease

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...

Atypical and incomplete Kawasaki disease

Incomplete Kawasaki disease (KD) occurs in patients with fever lasting five or more days and with two or three of the classical findings (exanthema, conjunctivitis, changes in the extremities, erythema of oral mucosa and lips, cervical lymphadenopathy) [1]. It is difficult to define its real incidence. However the association between bilateral conjunctival bulbar injection and perineal erythema...

incomplete kawasaki disease: a diagnostic dilemma

Usefulness of anterior uveitis as an additional tool for diagnosing incomplete Kawasaki disease.

PURPOSE There are no specific tests for diagnosing Kawasaki disease (KD). Additional diagnostic criteria are needed to prevent the delayed diagnosis of incomplete Kawasaki disease (IKD). This study compared the frequency of coronary artery lesions (CALs) in IKD patients with and without anterior uveitis (AU) and elucidated whether the finding of AU supported the diagnosis of IKD. METHODS This...