Article
Decoding clinical heterogeneity and age-related coronary risk in incomplete Kawasaki disease: a multicenter cluster analysis and structural equation modeling study.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2026
Liu Chang, Liu Dong, Li Bin, Xu Yanxia, Tan Zhongyou, Chen Ouyang, Yang Yanfeng, Si Feifei, Jiang Wenliang, Yi Qijian, Jing Fengchuan
Abstract excerpt
Objectives: To identify pretreatment clinical subphenotypes in incomplete Kawasaki disease (iKD) and examine their associations with post-IVIG coronary outcomes. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 1,619 iKD patients from six centers. Hierarchical clustering was performed using 11 pretreatment clinical and laboratory variables, with coronary measures excluded from cluster derivation. Post-IVIG coronary outcomes...
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- Humans
- Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome
- Female
- Male
- Cluster Analysis
- Retrospective Studies
