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Very early onset of coronary artery aneurysm in a 3-month infant with Kawasaki disease: a case report and literature review
2023-03-14
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<h4>Background: </h4> Kawasaki disease (KD) is a medium vessel vasculitis, of unknown etiology, typically presenting in children younger than 5 years of age. Prolonged fever (at least five days) is a major clinical criterion of KD, while cardiac involvement may occur in up to 25% of patients, generally in the second week of the disease. Case presentation: We describe the case of KD developing in a 3-month infant,...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 796d2212-81b0-5f75-9813-4c4fe6137f44
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2613285/v1
